A West Side man was talking to his imprisoned cousin in 2013 when he allegedly floated the idea of adding him to a string of bogus sexual abuse allegations filed against defrocked Chicago Catholic priest Daniel McCormack, court records show.
“I think I want to put you on these cases now,” the man told his cousin, who at the time was serving a three-year term for a gun conviction.
“Hell yeah,” the cousin, Ahmond Williams, allegedly responded. “I need some ass free money too. … As long as (McCormack) ain’t got to touch me for real, I don’t give a (expletive).”
That conversation recorded on a prison line 12 years ago was included in an unusual new lawsuit filed by the Archdiocese of Chicago on Monday alleging a group of mostly West Side residents, including a convicted murderer and others associated with violent street gangs, conspired for years to bring false allegations of sexual abuse by McCormack — often ranked among the most notorious child sexual abusers ever employed by the church — in order to win millions of dollars in legal settlements.
The co-schemers were caught on tape calling the false claims “licks,” a common street term for a robbery or ripoff, according to the suit. Once they got paid, many of the co-schemers burned through their settlement quickly, buying cars, taking trips to Las Vegas or Miami and even hosting street parties where videos posted on social media allegedly showed them throwing cash in the air.
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