Roger Keats, the man who served in the Illinois House and Senate and ran for Cook County Board President before he and his wife moved to Texas, is coming back to town.
Whether he will wear a ten gallon hat is still in question.
Since moving he has written a book, “Chicago Confidential.”
He’s “going to be in Chicago the 12th of June to do a book signing and some TV concerning my book Chicago Confidential. It has received very good reviews on Amazon. I will be at the Heartland Institute (1 South Wacker Drive) from 11:30 to 1:30. You might enjoy the lunch, talk, Q&A and book signing. Since we all know what the Chicago Democrat Machine is doing to Chicago & Illinois, this could be quite lively.”
Unfortunately, I can’t join my former legislative colleague, but I can reprint what I wrote about his book, which I really enjoyed.
Johanna Dietrich’s column about Harry Aleman appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 2, 2013.
In the Epilogue of his new book “Chicago Confidential,” former State rep. and Senator Roger Keats says he has “changed the names to protect the guilty.”
Former Illinois State Rep. and State Senator Roger Keats
The book is an insider’s look at political corruption in Chicago and Illinois.
If you have read it in the newspapers since the 1970’s, a reference probably appears in his book.
Two references came up today that are included in the book.
The first was about the crooked Judge Frank Wilson, the man who let mob murderer Harry Aleman off from a murder charge in 1977. Twenty years later, when Aleman was tried for a second time for murder, former mob lawyer Robert Cooley testified he delivered a $10,000 bribe to Wilson.
The judge’s decision in 1977 was so blatantly absurd that State Rep. Roscoe Cunningham and I introduced a resolution asking the Judicial Inquiry Board to investigate Judge Wilson.
You can imagine what happened to that effort.
Wilson did kill himself in 1990.
As did then ex-Judge Allen Rosin, a crooked ex-divorce court judge who shot himself right before he was scheduled to be indicted in 1987.
Wilson and Rosin only get referenced in passing in the 459-page book by the Republican who went down to defeat in his last campaign, one for President of the Cook County Board.
He moved to Texas the next year.
And wrote a “good-bye” letter that still gets hits.
I thought the story would have more in it about Springfield, but Keats, probably accurately, focuses only on how Springfield helps people get and keep power in Chicago.
The cover of “Chicago Confidential.”
And he is ahead of the curve in his major plot line–a Mexican cartel operating in Chicago.
Lots of shootouts, death, mayhem, mutilation and kinky sex.
It it were a movie, it would be X-rated.
The bullet holes and blood on the cover are understated, if anything.
But they match the picture of bullet holes accompanying the Associated Press article this week about Mexican cartels establishing footholds in United States cities, including Chicago.
So, what happens when a Mexican cartel comes up against the major black gang in Chicago?
“There ain’t nothin’ on the level. You just have to ask who wants what and then who is getting what and work backwards from there,” the major character in Roger Keats’ book states.
And what is the relationship of the cartel with the biggest Latino and black gangs, both of whom deal drugs supplied by the cartel?
How does Keats see the two local ethnic drug selling gangs relating to each other?
Do Chicago gangs really control Chicago Aldermen (or “Alderthings,” as I remember hearing now-Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky mutter while walking out of the House chambers when she and I served there)?
Do gang members serve as election judges?
Do gang members go from precinct to precinct voting under names of people who should not be on the voter rolls?
Keats surely paints a picture where one (at least if one is a Republican) wants to believe they do.
Does the Illinois House Speaker (named Burke in the book, but who has a daughter who is Attorney General) really use state funds and Federal (stimulus) money to keep Chicago politicians under his thumb.
“You can’t make this stuff up,” Keats writes again and again in the Epilogue.
The heroes are honest cops.
And attorney Terry Hake plays himself in Operation Greylord, even though Keats moves is up from 1990.
What does the cartel do to get the policemen who won’t toe the Chicago line?
You’ll have to buy the book to find out.
It’s for sale at ChicagoConfidentialTheBook.com.
Thanks Call for the information.
Our Illinois tax payers need to wake up and smell the corruption….. Maybe if they knew what is really going on with our politicians and judicial system, votes would be cast more appropriately and positive change would occur in our government…Making informed decisions before we elect candidates willing to accept a kickback or bribe to achieve their goals…….We the tax payers pay the ultimate price for corruption…literally.
“WE” the taxpayers are too lazy and ignorant to make any change.
The tax payers are not ignorant. However they are more willing to turn a bling eye to what is going on. Yes, judges are accepting kickbacks and bribes to fix cases. Yes, people are illegally losing custody of their children because the custody case is fixed. Yes, people are being wrongfully convicted in the criminal judicial system, and MORE…Corruption hasn’t changed much since the days of Greylord in the Chicago court system of the 80’s and 90’s, when judges, lawyers and police officers were convicted for fixing cases and accepting kickbacks and bribes……Greylord arrived in Mchenry County many, many years ago……Its not until someone becomes a victim of our court system and then they want change….The tax payers need to make change long before their day in court arrives and their case is fixed….In other words, our tax payers need to accept responsibility for the choices they make when they vote…..Not for one day did I ever believe that I would be sitting in a lawyers office and the lawyer would ask me to pay off a judge in exchange for custody of my child…However, it did happen, and I have never forgotten that day. It changed my life forever………..Now people, its time to get rid of the likes of Nygren and Zinke and vote for Prim.. He is an ethical candidate that will make proactive positive change, on behalf or our tax payers……Wake up people!