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Lawsuit by Koschman's mother accuses cops of falsifying evidence about son's death
Nanci Koschman gets emotional as she stands with the attorneys Locke Bowman and Flint Taylor representing her and the estate of David Koschman.
The mother of David Koschman filed a federal lawsuit today alleging that numerous Chicago police officials fabricated evidence as part of a plot to cover up the involvement of a nephew of then-Mayor Richard Daley in the killing.
The suit, which relies heavily on the report filed by special prosecutor Dan Webb, also alleges that Daley and certain family members, friends and associates gave “false, misleading and incomplete statements” to the special grand jury Webb convened.
The lawsuit names as defendants the City of Chicago, Cook County, two former police superintendents, numerous other former police officials, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, former State’s Attorney Dick Devine and three undisclosed Daley family members or associates.
At a press conference, Koschman’s mother, Nanci, said she decided to file the suit after reading Webb’s 162-page report.
“After I read this report several times I realized that my fight was not over,” she said. “I was shocked to see how the (Chicago Police Department and the state’s attorney’s office) handled my son’s case…It seems to me they did everything in their powers to just make this case go away.”
"I feel like I've been constantly hitting a brick wall," she told reporters.
As a result of Webb’s investigation, Daley’s nephew, Richard J. Vanecko, pleaded guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter, but no police officials were criminally charged with wrongdoing.
Nanci Koschman’s lawyer, Locke Bowman of the Northwestern University School of Law’s MacArthur Justice Center,
contended there was “an organized concerted effort to cover up the truth" in the investigation by police and prosecutors.
“What happened here, what happened in the days and months and years following that initial moment was not a legitimate investigation but was an organized, concerted process of covering up and concealing the truth,” he told reporters.
Bowman said there were "back channel communications" informing Daley, a family member or a high-level Daley staffer soon after Koschman was mortally wounded by a punch thrown by Richard Vanecko, the mayor’s nephew.
Attorney Flint Taylor, who is also representing Koschman’s mother in the suit, said there was a "concerted conspiracy to protect" a Daley family member from criminal prosecution and the mayor himself from political embarrassment.
sschmadeke@tribune.com
The suit, which relies heavily on the report filed by special prosecutor Dan Webb, also alleges that Daley and certain family members, friends and associates gave “false, misleading and incomplete statements” to the special grand jury Webb convened.
The lawsuit names as defendants the City of Chicago, Cook County, two former police superintendents, numerous other former police officials, State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez, former State’s Attorney Dick Devine and three undisclosed Daley family members or associates.
“After I read this report several times I realized that my fight was not over,” she said. “I was shocked to see how the (Chicago Police Department and the state’s attorney’s office) handled my son’s case…It seems to me they did everything in their powers to just make this case go away.”
"I feel like I've been constantly hitting a brick wall," she told reporters.
As a result of Webb’s investigation, Daley’s nephew, Richard J. Vanecko, pleaded guilty to a charge of involuntary manslaughter, but no police officials were criminally charged with wrongdoing.
Nanci Koschman’s lawyer, Locke Bowman of the Northwestern University School of Law’s MacArthur Justice Center,
contended there was “an organized concerted effort to cover up the truth" in the investigation by police and prosecutors.
“What happened here, what happened in the days and months and years following that initial moment was not a legitimate investigation but was an organized, concerted process of covering up and concealing the truth,” he told reporters.
Bowman said there were "back channel communications" informing Daley, a family member or a high-level Daley staffer soon after Koschman was mortally wounded by a punch thrown by Richard Vanecko, the mayor’s nephew.
Attorney Flint Taylor, who is also representing Koschman’s mother in the suit, said there was a "concerted conspiracy to protect" a Daley family member from criminal prosecution and the mayor himself from political embarrassment.
sschmadeke@tribune.com
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