Still No Word On Ticketing Investigation
Jon Yates does a great job.
Yates is the Chicago Tribune’s Problem Solver columnist and spends his time trying to help out consumers who are getting screwed, get some help. It’s great consumer advocacy journalism and it’s fun to see the little guy get some justice.
A year ago Yates reported on the plight of Mark Geinosky, who received 24 Chicago parking tickets for violations at places he had never been. The curious thing was that 13 of them were written sequentially out of the same police ticket book.
Hmmmmmm.
A year later, Geinosky has contested and beat all 24 tickets, but the investigation into the story, spurred on by Yate’s reporting is still ongoing.
Allegedly, CPD says the investigation is nearly complete.
Read Yate’s column on the subject, “A year later, no answers in parking ticket probe.”
Also, check out Yate’s “Ticket-challenging tips.”
Personally, at least on this subject, Yates might want to stick to consumer journalism.
Photo copyright Chicago Tribune 2009.
Photo by Nuccio Dinuzzo.
Accidents happen. Give those guys a break, eh?
Seriously though, this is very intriguing. I can’t imagine what the heck is going on, but it’s the stuff of CSI. Or Law and Order. Or Punk’d.
Can’t wait to see what was behind all this.
13 from the same Ticket Book? Sequentially issued tickets?
Thats a Copper writting those 13 at the very least.
My gut tells me it’s a cop who has a vendetta against Mr. Geinowsky. It is a slim possibility someone (perhaps even another cop) got a hold of a lost or stolen ticket book and decided to go to town on the poor guy.
He is suing the cops and says it was a conspiracy between the cops and his ex wife.
Should be interesting.
[...] Tribune’s Problem Solver columnist Jon Yates has been following the case of Mark Geinosky for over a [...]
Please let us know the name of the suspected cop so all of us can be aware and make a statement that it won’t be allowed!!!