The Chicago Sun-Times reports on the leader of the greatest jewelry theft ring in U.S. history:
He's one of the most crooked cops in Chicago history. William Hanhardt helped run a ring of mobbed-up jewel thieves -- while he was chief of detectives of the Chicago Police Department.For a look at how Hanhardt rose to power with the help of this powerful LCN member.
It's now seven years since the onetime deputy superintendent of police admitted he'd stalked and stolen more than $5 million from traveling jewelry salesmen and became the highest-ranking Chicago cop ever convicted of corruption.