.id AA04795; Wed, 16 Aug 95 18:34:46 CDT
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:34:45 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5 Num. 80



              Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 5  Num. 80
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                    ("Quid coniuratio est?")


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REPORT: RECOMMENDATION TO FIRE TOP PROSECUTOR
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[Associated Press, as reported in the *Champaign-Urbana News 
Gazette*, 08/16/95, page A-6]

CHICAGO (AP) -- An office of the Justice Department is 
recommending that a top prosecutor of one of the city's worst 
gangs be fired for misconduct, an attorney said today.

The report recommends that Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. 
Hogan, responsible for a spectacular series of gang convictions 
that later unraveled, should be terminated for several 
indiscretions, the Chicago Tribune reported today, citing 
unidentified legal and government sources and Hogan himself.

Hogan's attorney, Shelly Kulwin, said today that the U.S. 
attorney's executive office in Washington, D.C., recommended the 
dismissal. If the Justice Department ultimately accepts the 
recommendation, Kulwin said, Hogan will appeal to the Merit 
Systems Protection Board, which is independent of the Justice 
Department. He said he's confident Hogan will win there.

By early 1993, the conviction of 53 El Rukn street gang members 
and associates was touted as marking the end of an era of terror 
for the South Side streets they controlled.

But the case began to fall apart in 1993, when allegations 
surfaced that prosecutors knew some of their witnesses were on 
drugs; allowed some witnesses to have sex in prosecutors' 
offices; and that the prosecution kept this knowledge from the 
defense.

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YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
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>From Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 06:

Hi! Sherman Skolnick, Citizens' Committee to Clean Up the Courts, 
9800 Oglesby.

In Chicago, the federal court and the federal prosecutor's office 
are in the Dirksen Building. They are facing the biggest scandals 
probably in local history, if not national and international 
history.

A summary of details:

1) The Justice Department dragged their feet in prosecuting 
Assistant U.S. Attorney William R. Hogan, jr. Three federal 
district judges, after extensive hearings, have accused Hogan of 
arranging sex, dope, and perjury, in trying to put in jail 
members of the dope and murder gang known as the El Rukns.

Previously called the Blackstone Rangers, they have been financed 
through foundations linked to CIA -- part of an experiment in how 
to control neighborhoods. The CIA fronts included the Charles E. 
Merrill Trust of Cambridge, an offshoot of stock peddlers 
Merrill-Lynch.

Hey, but get this! El Rukns, and their relatives, reportedly are 
federal employees in the Dirksen Building!

Hogan says that if he goes to prison, at least *three* federal 
district judges will have to go to prison with him -- including 
Judge Aspin(sp?), Judge Holderman(sp?), and Judge Conlin(sp?). 
Hogan knows about corruption implicating *many* federal judges, 
including them! And he says they are trying to discredit him.

Hogan also knows a lot about the Justice Department's secret 
units doing dirty tricks, including *murdering* federal grand 
jury witnesses.

For years, the Justice Department has used perjured witnesses and 
faked-up video to send people to jail!

(By the way, the Hogan ruckus also includes four Mafia figures 
inserted into the federal grand jury system here to poison the 
well.)

[...]

>From Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 22:

[...]

More recently, the mass media would have you believe that the El 
Rukn dope mess is [unclear] limited to perjury and sex. Actually, 
it is the tip of a corrupt operation of the chief federal 
prosecutor's office in Chicago, involving, for example, bribing 
federal prosecutors [unclear] some who escape being prosecuted in 
a thing called "The Dope Underground" permeating the federal 
establishment here.

Assistant federal prosecutor William R. Hogan, jr., has been 
accused in the El Rukn mess of misconduct. He counter-attacks by 
saying six federal judges here take bribes.

Stay tuned.

[...]

>From Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 3  Num. 93:

[...]

ITEM: Assistant U.S. attorney William R. Hogan, jr., of Chicago, 
has been on administrative leave. The Justice Department has 
been, for months and months, dragging their feet on accusations 
against this federal prosecutor that he arranged perjury, drugs, 
and sex in the purported trials of numerous narco-terrorists in 
Chicago. Hogan counter-attacked, saying that the Justice 
Department covered up the bribery of six or more federal judges 
here.

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Note that statements above are those of Mr. Skolnick and do not 
necessarily reflect my own views nor the views of Conspiracy 
Nation.

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