Witnesses question accounts of homicide case tied to Daley nephew, says Sun-Times.
The police reports also attribute statements to friends of [the deceased David] Koschman and to a bystander described by prosecutors as one of the two unbiased witnesses that they say they didnt make or that distort what they told detectives.
Koschmans friends recently told the police theyd be willing to take lie-detector tests.
Instead, the Police Department closed the recently reopened case on March 1 without seeking criminal charges. The police concluded that the 6-foot-3, 230-pound Vanecko threw the punch that knocked the 5-foot-5, 140-pound Koschman to the street, where he struck his head, causing a brain injury that killed him 11 days later but that Vanecko acted in self-defense. They reached that conclusion without speaking to Vanecko, who they say ran away afterward and has refused to speak with detectives.
“The evidence [in a 500-page Indiana Dept of Labor
report, four months in the making] overwhelmingly demonstrated that the university made a decision to utilize its scissor lifts in known adverse weather conditions,” said Lori Torres, a state Department of Labor commissioner, describing the “knowing citation” issued against Notre Dame as “the most serious safety violation.”
Response:
In a statement, Notre Dame President John I. Jenkins reiterated his concession of last November that “we failed to keep [Declan Sullivan] safe, and for that we remain profoundly sorry.”
Chi Trib has this Dept. of Labor story in great detail, yesterday and today, where this:
INDIANAPOLIS Despite insisting the weather was uneventful even beautiful the day Declan Sullivan toppled to his death last fall while filming football practice, members of the University of Notre Dame athletic department worried about the safety of another student videographer and initially kept her from going up in a lift because of stiff winds, newly released records show.
Point is, people get hired on what basis and with what vetting, and they hire people on what basis etc. Top-down, we have Fr. Jenkins being hired and hiring, etc. All of it contributes. You fudge this issue, you fudge that one, and next thing you know, the enterprise begins to lose lustre.
Rev. Michael Pfleger in talks with archdiocese to take over struggling Leo High School, a few blocks from the St. Sabina rectory, says Jay Levine of CBS-2, as carried by Sun-Times.
To which Pfleger: neither confirm nor deny:
I’m in discussions with the Archdiocese but you know those are private conversations at this point and I cant comment at this point about those conversations.
Some creative thinking here?
Later: He’s going to fight this, says a Blithe Spirit source.
Yet later: He’s mobilizing the troops:
In response to the news broadcasts about St. Sabina, The Cabinet is holding a Parish Town Hall Meeting in the Church Sanctuary on Thursday, March 17th at 7pm. This meeting is for St. Sabina Members only.
Blithe Spirit 