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Editor's Note: The passage of time has not lessened the evils of political partisanship which inevitably impacts law enforcement and the administration of justice in the Cook County Sheriff's Office and Police Department. With a few notable exceptions, the Sheriffs who span the full gamut of 160 years of Cook County history have served their political masters and themselves better than the electorate. The historic struggle between reform, political machinery, and the pull of organized crime "fixers" is a recurring theme when one reviews the record of the Cook County Sheriff's Office and particularly the Police Department. The scandal, the infamy, and the corruption associated with the administration of this office down through the years is the subject of a continuing IPSN four-part focus report. Part III reviews the World War II period through the early 1960s, when the political biosphere of the Cook County Sheriff's Department was polluted by one damaging scandal after another. It was during this time that the reputation that is still alive and well, was firmly planted.

The Light at the End of the Dark Tunnel: O'Brien to Ogilvie, 1939-1962

Where else, but in the glorious (and notorious) County of Cook would a powerful U.S. Congressman relinquish his seat in Washington to run for the Office of Sheriff, acknowledged by many political savants as a dead-end electoral job? The answer to that question was inadvertently supplied by the Congressman who did just that, who when asked if he thought it was a good idea to allow Cook County Sheriff's to stand for re-election and be able to serve a second term in the office. "Hell no!" replied the pragmatic Tom O'Brien. "If he can't make it the first time don't give him a second chance." A brutally to the point statement but historically true. The legislature however, saw fit in the 1960s to allow the Sheriff more than one term and the track record is not too good since that decision.

Democratic Congressman Thomas O'Brien represented the state's 6th Congressional district on Chicago's West Side when he gave up his Congressional Washington post in order to seek and ultimately win election as Cook County Sheriff in 1938. Altruism, and the desire to faithfully serve the citizens of Cook County was no major part of his plans upon swearing in as the Sheriff of Cook County.

Through the next four years the public witnessed a remarkable expansion of slot machine gambling and syndicate-controlled road houses in the vast suburban environs which the Sheriff and his police officers seemed powerless to close down. It was during this time that the good Sheriff O'Brien earned his famous and well-deserved moniker "Blind Tom" because neither O'Brien, nor his Police chief, Lester Laird or the (then) 100 police officers in their employ could find the names and addresses of 1,380 syndicate handbook operations supplied to them by Attorney General John E. Cassidy.

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According to Chief Bratcher, Zuley was dismissed from the Task Force for leaking to the press. Zuley maintains he left the Task Force of his own volition. But Kavanaugh would seek greater revenge against the detective who had publicly embarrassed him. He would go to IAD.


Lead 80, however, was not completely dismissed. Two separate follow-up investigations, conducted by Medrys of Cook County and Peters of Barrington, along with the FBI, were ordered. But the trail was cold, the initial investigators were not consulted, and key witnesses were not called. But years later, Bratcher could say: “This lead is dead. It’s been beat to death. It has no legs, it can’t stand on it’s own.”

Perspective


Zuley, Valdez and Fowler, along with the other lead 80 investigators, were angry. They admit their frustration with Task Force command. Their opinions of the events are obviously colored by their emotions. But there were other officers present who were not directly involved in the interrogations. They observed the events and had this to say about why the feeling was that the murders were the result of a botched robbery attempt:

“They had all kinds of strange theories, but if you came to kill a guy, you don’t kill six people with him ... you wait and you get him in the parking lot without any witnesses.”

“As far as Lead 80, I know Dick Zuley and murder is his thing. I’ve talked to a lot of guys and some like Zuley and some hate him. But none of them question his skill at solving murders.”

“In my mind, Lead 80 was the best we had. I remember we were going to follow Cruz. We had everything set up, and the word came down that there would be no surveillance. I don’t know why Kavanaugh ordered that ... Remember that your [the BGA] report will be read by a lot of chiefs and police officers and it is an example of how the wrong people were in charge.”

Lead 80 Response

“The Leak”


At one point, Channel 7’s Chuck Goudie appeared to put out inaccurate information he had gathered regarding the investigation of Lead 80. Zuley, who knew Goudie from contact in Chicago, offered to call Goudie to straighten out the facts. He was roundly told to keep out of it.


From the beginning, key members of the command had chosen favorites among the press corps to leak information to. Jay Levine was consistently stroked by the Task Force and was also liked by Bratcher—they had other favorites too. Goudie was not one of the chosen. Goudie had taken a very hard line toward the Task Force and was therefore widely detested by the command. One witness close to the Task Force told us, “they hated Goudie and posted his picture up on the wall next to the mug shots of wanted criminals.”


Zuley’s attempts to provide Goudie with correct information were heavily criticized by management members of the Task Force, and Chief Bratcher maintains that Zuley was in fact fired from the Task Force for leaking to the press. Information on lead 80 did not reach the media, however, until September of 1993. Zuley had left the Task Force in February of that year.


The Lead 80 document that was leaked was a copy of a draft report. This report had been accessible to many people from many different agencies. Nothing Zuley had worked on during his time on the Task Force was reported by the media during the first nine months after the murders. Zuley insists that he was not responsible for the leak. And no one involved with Lead 80 on the task force could supply any evidence that Zuley had indeed leaked to the press.


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