Torture Scandal In Chicago Grows

ABC TV Chicago reports:

There are new claims that a report about alleged torture by Chicago police officers under the command of Jon Burge may have been tainted. The man who conducted the report may have had a personal connection to the case.

Controversy flared again over the weekend when it was revealed in news reports that special prosecutor Edward Egan has a police officer nephew who once worked under Lieutenant Jon Burge, the detective commander at the center of the torture allegations. Attorneys who already questioned Egan's independence now wonder why he didn't recuse himself from the nearly $7 million investigation.

"Wow. How did this happen? How could this possibly have happened?" said G. Flint Taylor, People's Law Office.

Attorneys and supporters of the People's Law Office were stunned by the weekend revelation that special prosecutor Edward Egan, the retired appellate court judge commissioned in 2002 to investigate and write this report on police torture, has a nephew, William Egan, who worked directly under Lt. Jon Burge, who the report concluded led the torture ring during the 1970s and 80s.

Torture doesn't only happen in Third World countries:it happens in one party towns like Chicago.