Jon Seidel

U.S. District Judge John Blakey said the debt that Romeo Blackman "owes to society is significant" for his role in a series of killings and the "corruption of young people."

The Chicago Sun-Times obtained a copy of Sheri Mecklenburg's retirement letter. In it, she claimed U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros directed a felony prosecution of the "Broadview Six," even though she found the case "better suited to misdemeanor charges."

Lawyers for former federal prosecutor Sheri Mecklenburg say she retired Thursday from the Justice Department — a week before a federal judge is expected to hold a crucial hearing over the mishandling of the "Broadview Six" case.

U.S. District Judge April Perry will likely probe and challenge lawyers as she determines what to do about the revelations that triggered a credibility crisis for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros this summer.

The verdict comes on the second day of deliberations in the trial of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe. It began Sept. 8, and jurors heard detailed accounts from his accusers.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe spent a little more than an hour on a witness stand trying to explain himself Tuesday, as his trial nears its end. Prosecutors have accused Uribe of a series of sexual assaults in Schaumburg and Naperville in 2022.

The woman took the witness stand Monday and said her boss in China sent her to a lunch meeting to get a photo of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officer Luis Uribe to ask him "not to harm our girls" in exchange for free sex.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe is accused by prosecutors of sexually assaulting four women in Chicago's suburbs in 2022. But Uribe's attorney has said he was set up by a prostitution ring overseen by a boss in China.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer Luis Uribe is accused of using his gun and badge during attacks on four women in Chicago's suburbs in 2022. A jury heard opening statements in his trial on Wednesday.

The court records, unsealed at the request of the Chicago Sun-Times, offer a rare window into grand jury proceedings during the feds' pummeling deportation campaign last fall. Far from being a rubber stamp, grand jurors repeatedly pushed for proof that defendants had broken the law.