The Connection of the Chicago Mob and Corrupt Chicago Cop

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on how Chicago works:

A high-ranking Chicago cop and a criminal traded favors all the time, federal prosecutors say.

The cop would ask for a break on construction work on his home.

The criminal would ask for a break on someone's DUI.

The cop would ask for help raising money for a policemen's fund.

The criminal would ask for a background check on a friend's employee.

Such was the routine, prosecutors say, between O'Hare Police Cmdr. Michael Acosta and John Boyle, a convicted felon and city worker, as the FBI secretly listened in on Boyle's cell phone in 2004 as part of the Hired Truck investigation.

Boyle has since gone to prison for demanding bribes from trucking and construction companies in the city's Hired Truck Program.

Acosta, 59, is going on trial later this month for allegedly stealing $4,000 from a police fund set up to recognize excellent officers. He is also charged with lying to FBI agents about his relationship to Boyle and the favors he had done for him. Acosta, who retired from the Police Department in January last year, faced losing his job if top police brass knew he was violating a key police rule by associating with a known felon. Boyle had been convicted of stealing millions of dollars in money from the Illinois tollway.

Despite their close relationship, Boyle would gripe when Acosta got pushy, according to a new prosecution filing in the Acosta case.

In one secretly recorded conversation, Boyle is talking to Vito Pesoli, at the time an assistant commissioner in the city's Department of Streets and Sanitation and a political operative. It's the first time prosecutors have mentioned Pesoli's name in the Hired Truck case.

Read the whole article to find about how Chicago's Outfit comes in the picture.The Mob,the Chicago police,and Chicago politicians where does one start and when one end? You might say the Patrick Fitzgerald has an endless job in Chicago.