Top Prosecutor Kim Foxx No Longer Hides Corruption

Tribune Reporter Megan Crepeau Covers for Foxx, again…

Of all the political ideas ever institutionalized in a system of government, none has proven wiser and more effective than the notion of checks and balances by the founding fathers.

A process of giving final authority to the people while checking their power from the excesses of fanaticism, factional dominance, and revolution, all rooted in the conception of individual freedom as a god-given right, the American system has unleashed a creativity, productivity, and stability hitherto never seen in any civilization, despite its many failings.

Now the country is threatened from within by once-democratic cities that have cast off the system of checks and balances in favor of one-party rule, a rule that spells catastrophe for not only the city, but the rest of the nation.

Chicago is the leader in this transformation, and no figure in the city is more representative of the danger it poses to the nation more than the city and county’s top prosecutor, Kimberly Foxx. Her rise in Chicago from a lowly prosecutor with little to no trial experience, earning quiet whispers of shock at her incompetence from her earliest days, to the position of final arbiter in decisions on how criminals and police would be treated in Illinois could only have been achieved through one-party rule.

It’s important to understand the nature of this one-party rule in Chicago. It is in its essence socialist or Marxist, systems that boil down to one political party in control of key institutions, both private and public. Only this kind of control could have not only foisted a maniac like Foxx upon the public for two administrations but also watched her power expand exponentially throughout that period.

So powerful has Foxx become that she not only doesn’t disguise her corruption, but she flaunts it, as if daring anyone to question it. Consider the fact that time and again she is caught lying, breaking the law and established rules of procedure, and there are no consequences for it. Caught red-handed lying about the Jussie Smollett case, nothing happened to Foxx.

Foxx’s hubris and confidence that she can break every rule in her planned destruction of the prosecutor’s office was on full display this week. An article in Chicago City Wire entitled “Did State’s Attorney Foxx Violate Supreme Court Rules by Discussing Murder Case with Inmate?” opened saying that Foxx published a video celebrating the release of a convicted murderer, Jose Cruz.

The Problem?

According to the article, Foxx visited a state prison and just happened to bump into Jose Cruz, a convicted murderer of a 16-year-old kid serving a 90-year sentence.

Foxx had something to tell Cruz, according to the article:

Foxx told Cruz that just the day before, her office had discussed his post-conviction review case…Cruz said he met Foxx again by the door at the conclusion of the ceremony. “She called me over,” Cruz said. “Gave me a hug and said, ‘God bless you; you’re going home.’”

How ’bout that? Foxx is roaming around a state prison, schmoozing with convicted killers and promising them they are soon to be out of prison. In that regard, she is not making false promises. She has released more than 250 inmates from prison, on “exonerations.” To accomplish this incredible feat, Foxx needed an obsequious, amoral media to hide the vast evidence that these exonerations are frauds. The offenders were legitimately convicted because they were legitimately guilty.

Here’s the problem, though. Such interactions about an inmate’s criminal case by a prosecutor is an egregious violation of Illinois Supreme Court rules covering communications with another attorney’s client, former assistant prosecutors said about the meeting.

How and why does Foxx get away with it? It is because Chicago is a one-party system fulfilling 1960s Marxist radicals and their war on the system. And she is openly celebrating such actions despite the fact they are clearly in violation of rules established by the state’s highest court. Foxx’s abuses with no consequences reveal that the long-cherished abolishment of a two-party system based on pesky checks and balances is now fully complete in Chicago and beyond.

The signs of this one-party rule are revealed not only in Foxx’s actions, but in the media’s response to them. Chicago City Wire is not representative of the mainstream media in Chicago. Far from it. Megan Crepeau’s willingness to describe the supposedly chance meeting between Cruz and Foxx in a state prison as “an astonishing coincidence” is yet another pass from the media that succumbed to the one-party system long ago, for Crepeau doesn’t even mention the fact that Foxx has violated one of the most elemental rules guiding attorney conduct in the state.

This is nothing new. Crepeau, a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism—a kind of factory for “journalists” serving the radical one-party rule of the city and its bogus exoneration movement—has established herself as an obedient servant to Foxx. How could it be otherwise? Crepeau, like every other self-proclaimed “journalist” in Chicago, runs the risk of her appalling coverage in the criminal courts toppling should she reveal even one instance of Foxx’s dismal corruption. The media and Foxx: they are all in it together.

But the extent of the power of one-party rule in Chicago exemplified through Foxx’s corruption is not limited to the cabal of media servants who have propped up her administration by hiding her corruption from public view. Her power is revealed in the failure of any opposition to what she has undertaken.

The entire political structure of the city, county, and state has turned a blind eye to Foxx’s allegiance of the prosecutor’s office to the worst criminals, all in an attempt to fulfill the left mandate of destroying the system from within. This includes the Department of Justice, for whom Foxx’s willingness to release convicted killers should long ago have attracted the attention of the US Attorney. She has faced no significant sanctions, no penalties.

The Chicago City Council?

Please…

Those often called conservatives in Chicago have also ignored Foxx’s corruption. In other cities where George Soros–funded prosecutors have ultimately been removed from office due to grassroots outrage, Foxx has glided along unfettered. Her videos boasting of her willingness to coddle criminals in defiance of the entire judicial process amounts to little more than a middle finger to whatever political factions calling themselves conservative may maintain.

But…but…but…Foxx’s acolyte lost in the election to a candidate clearly not wrapped in the conservative cloth of nearly every other top elected official in the city, those still hopeful about Chicago’s future may maintain. Eileen O’Neill Burke’s victory against Clayton Harris, accomplished amidst a mountain of suspicious vote counting and media reporting, was a sign that some sanity may remain in the city, but Burke will face some tough tests even before she is sworn in.

First will be the inevitable pressure the mob action otherwise known as the Chicago media will impose upon her to continue the exoneration pipeline. Without the willingness of a prosecutor to maintain these exoneration claims, the Chicago media risks exposing itself as one of the greatest frauds in American history.

A second test is taking shape in the wake of the August Democratic Convention. Signs are abundant that it will be violent and chaotic, exposing the police to attacks on the street, then legal attacks should the police take action to maintain law and order or even protect their fellow officers. The media is so out of control in Chicago right now that even the most justified use of force by the police is now transformed into lawfare—or, more specifically, media-fare—against police officers.

The cabal of drooling, dimwitted radical scribes and shining, white-teethed, overpaid broadcasters are no doubt readying narratives to be launched against the police should they be forced to use force. That media pressure will be unleashed on Burke, for criminalizing the police is the unspoken mandate of nearly every media outlet in the city.

Can Burke stand tall against all this?

In these dark days, hopelessness is not an option. Someone has to break through the one-party rule.

Martin Preib is a retired Chicago Police officer. An author of three books, The Wagon and Other Stories From the City, Crooked City, and Burn Patterns, Mr. Preib’s written work has also been published in Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, New City, and Tin House.  For his essay appearing in Virginia Quarterly Review, Mr. Preib was awarded the Staige D. Blackford Award for Nonfiction in 2005. In addition to his role with the City of Chicago, Mr. Preib served as the Second Vice President of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7.