Court: No pension for ex-Chicago officer convicted in attack
9 February 2022
A state court of appeals has ruled that a former Chicago police officer convicted of battery for attacking a bartender in 2007 during a drunken rage captured on video cannot collect his pension. The Chicago Sun-Times reports Monday’s ruling overturns a Cook County judge’s 2019 finding that Anthony Abbate was entitled to his pension because there was no clear link between his job and the off-duty attack in which he kicked and beat the bartender. The three-judge appellate panel found that Abbate felt his status as an officer gave him impunity to act as he pleased and that he used ...
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Court: No pension for ex-Chicago officer convicted in attack
The three-judge appellate panel found that Anthony Abbate felt his status as an officer gave him impunity to act as he pleased.
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