Ex- Chicago police officer pleads guilty in murder-for-hire scheme

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

He was the ringleader of an “elite” Special Operations Section that ransacked homes without warrants and shook down drug dealers for hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash.

On Tuesday, former Chicago Police Officer Jerome Finnigan, wearing an orange jump suit and shackles, admitted to those crimes as well as to the most outrageous charge — that as an officer, he ordered a hit on another cop.

Just a reminder, it used to be illegal to own a handgun in Chicago : unless you were a police officer.