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Convicted former Deputy Sheriff/Deputy County Treasurer Gary Goehl reminisces about the corrupt Chicago of his day and remarks how little some things have changed.
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Anna, this story is incredible. Who the heck is this guy?
Here's my favorite part:
"My own career flourished more anonymously for several years. On my $28,000 salary, I briefly grew as rich as a Madoff disciple, cavorted with gorgeous women in my Lake Shore Drive penthouse and enjoyed the company of mobsters on all-expense-paid visits to foreign resorts. The less savory side of all this was the retribution — often bloody, sometimes lethal — visited on operatives and finks less lucky than I."
So he's saying he knew people on the wrong side of the machine were being killed for it?
I think that's exactly what he's saying. Scary, right? I just hope that doesn't still go on, but who knows?
ahhhh! So he spills his guts to the New York Times? Probably knew the local press would smell his bull.
did some digging...
A limitation of this particular case is that the author of the Times article, Gary Goehl, is talking about things that happened in the 80's and 90's, which goes back further than the readily available archives on any of the major newspapers sites.
Which I found suspiciously convenient... But I did still have an active paid membership at HighBeam Research left over from another project earlier this month.
I've clipped some choice parts from the article - those which corroborate the Times piece. The citation and link are below so if any of you jouralistas are already a member, you can just click on over and read it yourself.
What I find most compelling about this article is that it's actually about his wife, who is unable to collect child support from Mr. Goehl because of financial problems, health problems, and issues related to his felony charge --
MOM'S CASE TOO THORNY FOR COUNTY CHILD-SUPPORT SUIT MOVED AFTER COMPLAINT.(Local)
Article from:
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Article date:
November 1, 1998
Author:
Bartels, Lynn
- Who's Gary Goehl? He's a convicted felon and the father of Berg-Goehl's two sons, ages 11 and 9.
- He pleaded guilty later that year to bank fraud and conspiracy and was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.
- Prosecutors said Goehl lied to obtain 40 bank loans totalling $800,000. He had gotten cozy with the banks when he worked as an aide in the Cook County treasurer's office, they said.
From: MOM'S CASE TOO THORNY FOR COUNTY CHILD-SUPPORT SUIT MOVED AFTER COMPLAINT.(Local) by Bartels, Lynn
HighBeam™ Research
Source: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO), 11/1/1998.
Via:
COPYRIGHT 2008 Rocky Mountain News. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Dialog LLC by Gale Group.
Whoah! Good digging.
So he lied to score 40 loans adding up to $800,000. And in this Op-Ed he says that was only the tip of the iceberg.
Yowza.
yeah. he's a bad dude. There's more stuff out there. But it all costs money to get at - http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Gary+Goehl%22&btnG=Search&um=1...
If anybody else is interested in plumbing the depths, maybe we could divvy up the burden somehow? I don't know. Just throwing that out there.
I'd like to try to take a look at the web of connections between this guy and his more well known associates. Researching stuff that happened in the 80's, though, in this day and age, feels like archaeology - pull some bones from solid rock, put it together, see what kind of creature it makes.
My pet conspiracy theory is that Old Media is intentionally leaving these puzzles for us so they can extort some scratch from the citizen journalist community. Sounds crazy. Or does it?
Mmm, maybe a tad crazy :) Also, it DOES say at the end that he's working on a memoir. So this is really just a taste. Probably there will be a lot more info in that.
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