|Updated Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 10:41 pm CT
JOLIET, IL — More than three months after losing his bid for a third term in office, former Joliet Mayor Bob O'Dekirk has retained a Palos Heights law firm to file a federal RICO lawsuit against former Joliet Police Chief Al Roechner, Roechner's wife, Nancy, current Elwood Police Commander Marc Reid and a host of others including Shaw Media, the newspaper company that publishes The Herald-News in Joliet.
The federal lawsuit also names former Joliet Herald-News editor Joseph Hosey, who also previously worked for Patch, plus current Joliet City Councilman Pat Mudron and former City Councilman Jim McFarland as defendants.
The lawsuit contends all the defendants acted as an enterprise "to further deliberate illegal conduct against O'Dekirk." Patch has reached out to all the defendants in the case and will update this story if any respond.
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The lawsuit also points out that Shaw Media has control over the publications of The Herald-News and "Shaw Media approved all articles by Hosey, knowing they were false, relevant to this action, published in The Herald-News."
On Wednesday afternoon, Joliet Patch interviewed Palos Heights attorney Michael Ettinger, whose firm,...
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