Crime doesn’t pay, except…
The Sun-Times’ Steve Warmbir today reports that former Melrose Park Police Chief Vito Scavo is still collecting more than $7,000 a month from the taxpayers — even after being sentenced to prison on fraud and racketeering charges.
Writes Warmbir:
Vito Scavo — the crooked former Melrose Park police chief — muscled a Catholic church, a movie theater, a children’s amusement park and other businesses in the west suburb to hire his private security firm, which he staffed with on-duty cops.
He also ordered his employees — while on the clock — to drive his car from Illinois to his Florida vacation home.
Scavo, who retired in 2006, was convicted of racketeering and extortion and sentenced in February to six years in prison.
But he’s still getting his Melrose Park government pension — $7,737.88 a month.
Michael Manzo, who ran for Melrose Park village president in 2001 on a platform of replacing Scavo and is now Commissioner Peraica’s Chief of Staff, put it best:
“It’s a disgrace to all the honest cops who are putting into the pension that Vito Scavo is still getting paid.”
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