Chicago US Attorney's Office Reviewing Past Grand Jury Proceedings After Another Case Tied to 'Broadview Six' Prosecutor

[hookaleft]

Chicago US Attorney’s Office Reviewing Past Grand Jury Proceedings After Another Case Tied to ‘Broadview Six’ Prosecutor Falls Apart

Chicago’s embattled U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said his office is reviewing scores of grand jury cases from across the 20-year career of the prosecutor now facing misconduct allegations from the “Broadview Six” protester case.

A third criminal case connected to Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg has fallen apart after Boutros himself filed an unopposed motion Monday to dismiss charges in a separate arson case.

In that motion, Boutros said his office has undertaken a review of more than 100 grand jury cases Mecklenburg indicted dating back as far as 2007 after he discovered “serious irregularities” in Mecklenburg’s “grand jury presentations.”

That review is necessary, in part, to “to restore the judiciary’s, defense bar’s, and public’s confidence in the grand jury practices and proceedings” held within the Northern District of Illinois, Boutros said.

https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/22/chicago-us-attorney-s-office-reviewing-past-grand-jury-proceedings-after-another-case

Looks to me like they might be trying to scapegoat Mecklenburg for all of the Office's misconduct.

[LuvLoogie]

1. Squeaky wheel gets the grease.

What those prosecutors did in the Broadview 6 grand jury was pretty egregious. I mean you'd have to be a kool-aid drinker to go that far. I think that she would blow the whistle on any systemic conduct she was privy to in order to portray herself as swallowed up in a larger swamp.

Was her whole career in the Northern District of Illinois?

[hookaleft]

2. No but she has been in Ilinois for her whole career

Mecklenburg is not a rookie lawyer. She was previously general counsel for the Chicago Police Department and was an assistant corporation counsel in Chicago’s law department.

https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/1-more-question/1-more-question-federal-prosecutors-facing-credibility-crisis/

[LuvLoogie]

3. They can try and scapegoat her.

I don't see how you're able to pull these shenanigans throughout career without systemic support.

I wish the press were concerned with justice more than "law and order" punative porn.

I mean corrupt law enforcement is not some arcane phenomenon.