Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Alleging 'Code of Silence' Led to Fatal Crash
VIDEO ON LINK Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Alleging 'Code of Silence' Led to Fatal Crash By Charlie Wojciechowski Just before the jury was set to deliberate, a settlement has been reached in the case of a former Chicago police detective who was involved in a fatal accident. The suit alleged that the Chicago Police Department's "code of silence" allowed detective Joseph Frugoli to escape punishment for drunken driving before he plowed his SUV into a disabled vehicle in April 2009. "We were always prepared to take this verdict," Attorney Tim Cavanagh said. "We have been talking to the city this whole time and they accepted responsibility and we accepted a settlement." Frugoli's blood-alcohol content was more than four times the legal limit when his SUV crashed into the car, killing two men. The lawsuit filed by the families of Andrew Cazares and Fausto Manzera alleged a "code of silence" led Frugoli...