United States v. M.L. Moore, Alex Ramos, James P. Young, and Edward L. Jackson, Jr.

DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

Before us is a group of crooked former members of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) who were set up and eventually busted by the CPD’s Internal Affairs Division (IAD) and the FBI. The police officers, who devoted a considerable amount of effort to making money from local drug dealers (and undercover agents whom they mistook for drug dealers) through robbery and acts of extortion at the expense of their public duties, were eventually charged in a 39-count superseding indictment with various racketeering, extortion, robbery, drug, and weapons violations. They were…