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Actually News, Lake County Politicians are exceptionally dangerous, current politicians more dangerous than past. Certain current politicians think they are beyond the scope of the law. I think it is an excellent psychological tool used by the US Atty & Federal Law Enforcement to give some politicians a feeling for incarceration. Everyone brought before a Federal Court for a criminal matter should be in shackles. Lets not forget: Quote: http://www.northwestindiana.com/discussionforum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=10664&start=30&sid=d484de9a484eb6daea001d08b31159896. Unsolved Murder: Hammond detectives have no doubts about who fired the fatal bullet into the back of Henry "Babe" Lopez's neck in 1979. They said they know without question who dropped a basketball-sized rock onto the gas pedal of the former East Chicago parks superintendent's city-owned vehicle, propelling his dead body into the Grand Calumet River.
Yet, 30 years later, Lopez's family still lives without closure. "They believed Babe Lopez was cooperating with the federal government investigation into corruption in East Chicago," Solan told The Times. "Babe Lopez was not cooperating, and that belief cost Babe his life."
Dec. 12, 1979, the last day Lopez was seen alive Former City Clerk Charles Pacurar, now East Chicago's city controller, told Hammond police in 1980 that Lopez's death may have been related to $900,000 in Park and Recreation Bond funds.
In 1974, before Lopez was parks superintendent, the City Council moved $900,000 to park development line item 713 in the budget, records state. Pacurar told police that line item did not exist. The State Board of Accounts repeatedly questioned how the park bond money had been spent, state audits from 1977 to 1983 show. The board's field examiners asked then-City Controller James Knight to determine whether the funds had been used for the purpose for which the bonds were issued. As of Aug. 19, 1982, Knight had not replied, records state.
Numerous sources told police they believed Edelmiro "Corfi" DeJesus was involved in Lopez's death. The federal Drug Enforcement Administration, FBI, and city and county authorities in Illinois and Indiana believed DeJesus was a mob assassin involved in numerous illegal activities, records state. DeJesus was shot and killed execution-style May 27, 1980 -- four months after Lopez's body was found. His death is still unsolved, East Chicago Police Chief Gus Flores said.
Summers said he believes DeJesus and his cronies were responsible for executing Lopez's murder. Then DeJesus was killed because he was mouthing off about killing Lopez, Summers added. Other sources contend the murder was drug-related.
But questions remained: Why was Lopez murdered? Who ordered the hit?
Summers recently told The Times the investigation into Lopez's murder "always pointed just straight in one direction" -- toward Vince Kirrin. http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/article_3e42b286-61f5-593b-9f9c-f334a8a600be.html
7. Unsolved Murder: East Chicago political insider Jay Given was shot , assignation style, attending a fund raiser for up and coming politician N. Atterson Spann, inside the vestibule of the Jockey Club. 30 years later, the case remains unsolved, but evidence points to a high-ranking former East Chicago police official who it’s alleged had a long term political beef with Givens. Interesting reading http://www.nwitimes.com/news/foreign-la ... 4f50b.html
One woman, opted to spend 10 days in jail for contempt of court rather than cooperate fully with investigators. Investigators said they thought the Jockey Club worker was holding out important information. The woman felt like a "lost ball in tall weeds, ... (and) just wanted to forget that entire night," she told police. She had learned to see and not see, she said, because "in East Chicago, two people could be standing side-by-side, one could have his head blown off and the other would not have seen a thing."
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16. Unsolved Murder: The bodies of a man and woman found burned in a car on Gary`s south side are believed to be those of a sheriff`s deputy and his wife, authorities said Monday. The deputy had been active in several federal investigations and was scheduled to testify in an upcoming federal racketeering trial. The victims are Cpl. Gary Rosser, 42, a 15-year veteran of the Lake County Sheriff`s Department, and his wife, Teresa.
Rosser was to testify in the trial of a Merrillville councilman and suspended sheriff`s officer who is accused of involvement in a shakedown racket. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-01-16/news/9001040803_1_bodies-sheriff-s-spokesman-police
On January 22, 1990, Magistrate Andrew P. Rodovich entered an order revoking Mokol's bond and detaining him pending trial as he found "there is probable cause to believe that Mr. Mokol was involved in the deaths of the Rossers [Rosser's wife also was murdered] in violation of the terms and conditions of his release." http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/939/436/31728/
17. Michael Mokol Sr, 48, a 19-year police veteran and former Merrillville town trustee, had been convicted of funneling $33,000 in bribes to former Lake County Sheriff Rudy Bartolomei, his political mentor. The payoffs in 1984 and 1985 came from Reginald P. Kinkade, an East Chicago distributor of video poker machines.
The money, in the form of political contributions, went to Sheriff Bartolomei through Mokol, buying protection from gambling raids. At the time the machines were operating legally in scores of taverns, clubs and fraternal halls in the county. Kinkade, however, paid bribes to police to avoid investigation, according to trial testimony.
Mokol was sentenced to 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge James Moody, an angry federal judge who said society ``has a right to strike back`` at corrupt law officers. In sentencing Mokol for bribery, Moody said he was sending a message to the 190 sheriff`s police officers and 850 other law officers in local communities throughout the county that bribery is intolerable. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-07-27/news/9003030302_1_gambling-raids-police-officers-law-officers
As another side note, found in a blog, http://bluecountyredstate.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-problems-at-lake-county-sheriffs.html is a very vivid, although not verifiable description of how Gary Rosser, 42, a 15-year veteran of the Lake County Sheriff`s Department, and his wife, Teresa, his wife may have met their death. My bet Mokol Jr may have been involved.
Per an Anonymous poster, posting on Buzzcut's blog writes:
Buzz,
Let me share with you and your readers on how horrible the crime that was committed on Gary & Teresa Rosser.
Gary was part of the investigation of “Operation Lights Out.†This was Officer Gary Rosser’s third or fourth secret operation into the corruption in Lake County. It is also the one he feared the most for his safety, and for good reasons.
Officer Gary Rosser was set to testify against, SGT. Mike Mokol Sr. (a Merrillville councilman who at one time was chief of the sheriff`s police) Unbeknownst Officer Gary Rosser, Mike Mokol Sr. had taken a contract hit out on his life for $10,000.
Officer Rosser was lured into a false real estate deal by his so called friend, George Swetkey (see immediate posting below), who was paid by Mike Mokol Sr. to do the deadly deed.
First they kidnapped Gary’s wife Teresa. They beat her, they raped her and they took pictures of what they did to her.
They then set up a meeting at the Red Rooster restaurant with Officer Rosser. They told Officer Rosser that they had beaten his wife and if he didn’t leave peacefully, they would order her killed.
When they got Officer Rosser to the location where his wife, Teresa was, Officer Rosser tried to fight them off. He was beaten; stabbed; cuffed (both arms and legs) and they tied a noose over his neck to choke him. When this didn’t kill him they shot him several times.
They then stuffed Officer Rosser and his wife into the car in which they would be found. When they set the car on fire, Officer Gary Rosser was still alive. His lungs had smoke inhalation.
Gary left behind two children, his mother Ruby, died six months later of a broken heart.
Teresa had three children, who a year later became orphans after losing their father (Teresa’s first husband) to a heart attack at age 33, which many attributed to the stress of this situation.
And to think that 21 years later, the Lake County Sheriff’s department is being investigated for the same issues that destroyed the Rosser family…When will the citizens of this county stand up and quit supporting these criminal thugs!
http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/939/436/31728/
http://ftp.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/939/939.F2d.436.90-1777.html
17a. Calling the crime ``well-planned executions,`` an Indiana judge sentenced confessed slayer George Swetkey to 110 years in prison Friday for the murders of a Lake County sheriff`s police officer and his wife.
``Any thought I have that he might somehow walk the streets again makes me shudder,`` said Judge James Letsinger of Lake County Superior Court, Crown Point, when he imposed the near-maximum prison terms for double murder. `This sentence is intended to see that he doesn`t.``
Swetkey, for his part, stood mute. ``I haven`t anything to say,`` he muttered softly.Calling the crime ``well-planned executions,`` an Indiana judge sentenced confessed slayer George Swetkey to 110 years in prison Friday for the murders of a Lake County sheriff`s police officer and his wife.http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-08-25/news/9003110650_1_inherently-evil-person-murders-sentence
17b. As a interesting side note, Mike Mokol Jr., was very much like his father. Mokol Jr. - the serially arrested son of late Merrillville Town Councilman and Lake County Police Chief Michael Mokol Sr. Mokol Sr., was convicted in 1990 of federal racketeering and illegal gambling charges for taking money to provide police protection for illegal gambling operations. Molok Jr, a, convicted felon -- was sentenced to 262 months in prison and five years of supervised release. May 2010. http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/3f068990-2d53-5b33-8824-ff231ebd1268.html
Mokol Jr., a convicted felon with a criminal history spanning three states, is charged in the federal case with three counts of possessing specific handguns and ammunition after his criminal convictions and one count of using a specific gun during a drug trafficking crime. Prosecutors claim he orchestrated burglaries that yielded the guns. He is specifically charged with possessing a 9-mm handgun and a .45-caliber handgun. So violence in LC Politics still runs deep. The Preacher, Marsh Hahney, Markovich and others have been victims of this violence. Some believe, in the last election, Andrande family and their run for office, as well as, their clan were brought into Hammond to help McDermott secure an election. Adding to the conspiracy, ex City Controller Bobbie Lendi notarized Mariza http://speakingtruthtopower.blogs.com/files/maritza-andrade-can42.pdf and Alex Rafael Andrade http://speakingtruthtopower.blogs.com/files/alex-rafael-can42.pdf candidacy forms for Hammond elected offices. Actually I believe, certainly believe Lendi just happened to be at the Crown Point Government Center in stead of tending to his duties in the Controller's Office. Some believe a recently deceased radio host personalities heart attack was culled by a backroom deal to fire him from his job, to minimize the criticism of Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott JR. Still other believe a back room deal was allegedly promised helping a media outlet score new digs months later and in the middle of this, a friend of McDermott buys and sells a building for a $300,000 profit, some believe repaired with federal tax dollars and a back room deal with a college. Pure speculation, unsubstantiated....hyperbole. Lake County Politicianss is the New Mafia and we are all paying for it.
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XMPT wrote in Dermott Minions now stating No Sweet House? Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:04 am. Hammonite you might want to say a prayer to your God for freetime. She got back what she dished out.
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