Cop in botched Koschman case found soft landing on AG staff

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Three years after he led the initial botched investigation into David Koschman’s death in 2004 at the hands of a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley, Ronald E. Yawger retired from the Chicago Police Department and took a plum job with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

Even though he’d once been indicted by a federal grand jury, Yawger was hired over dozens of other applicants as one of only 13 investigators on Madigan’s staff.

His salary, like that of other investigators there, has soared since then. He now makes $81,264 a year — up 60 percent since he was hired seven years ago.

Not only is it a prize position, it also allows Yawger to double-dip — collect two government checks at the same time, one from the state, the other the city police pension he began taking after 34 years as a cop.

His annual pension — largely funded by Chicago taxpayers — now comes to $77,443. Add that to his state salary, and the 63-year-old retired cop now makes $158,707 a year, records show.

No word yet on whether Chicago Bull Derrick Rose will wear a t-shirt protesting this.