Conspiracy, Intrigue, Heartbreak Pepper Parking Ticket Lawsuit
This story gets weirder and weirder.
The Tribune’s Problem Solver columnist Jon Yates has been following the case of Mark Geinosky for over a year.
He’s the gentleman that received 24 phantom parking tickets written for addresses his vehicle has never been and “coincidentally” by the same two police officers.
The internal police investigation is still going on, but is supposed to wrap up soon.
But in the meantime, Geinosky has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the City of Chicago, and two Chicago police officers.
The suit is accusing the cops of some sort of conspiracy with Geinosky’s ex-wife to banish him into parking ticket hell. Geinosky was even receiving parking tickets AFTER the vehicle was sold and one assumes, the license plates destroyed.
Here’s the full Trib story and the actual court filing.
The court filing is surprisingly interesting reading.
What upsets me is that I believe there are numerous instances of this kind of behavior from Chicago Police that will never be challenged. These 2 particular officers were pretty idiotic in how they went about this…they’d make horrible criminals, and as it is, they make horrible policemen.
But I’m sure that other officers are guilty of this kind of behavior to a lesser degree and will never be held accountable for their actions. Folks that receive these kinds of bogus tickets oftentimes just pay up because they figure it will never happen again, and it’s worth the 50 to 100 bucks to just get it over with.
I think we could clog the courts with contesting tickets if everybody had time to do it. Maybe that would be a first step to revamping the system.
PTG, any luck with getting comment counts on the front page so we can follow the discussions like before? Thanks!
Either these cops were really stupid and thought no one would figure out what they were doing, or they simply thought they were untouchable and could get away with anything.
Hopefully, the files on this will be made public. I’m dying to see what IAD says about this.
[...] least until Geinosky filed a lawsuit in federal court back in March of this year, which accused the police officers in questions of conspiring on behalf [...]
[...] Yates and Geinosky seemed to uncover some sort of Chicago-style Keystone Cop conspiracy where a few cop friend’s of Geinosky’s ex-wife were issuing fictional tickets to Geinosky as some sort of juvenile revenge–at least according to Geinosky’s federal lawsuit. [...]
[...] former wife and a few cops in an organized conspiracy to overwhelm him with parking ticket fines. Geinosky filed a lawsuit intimating this low level racketing in early [...]
Either the cops were really stupid and thought no one would figure out what they were doing, or they simply thought they were untouchable and could get away with anything. But the incident should be handheld properly by justice.