Legal Opinion
Kirk Chrzanowski v. Louis Bianchi
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 2, 2013No. 12-2811PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
From January 2006 until he lost his job in December 2011, Kirk Chrzanowski was an assistant state’s attorney in the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office. Problems arose for Chrzanowski in early 2011, when a special prosecutor began investigating suspected wrongdoing by Chrzanowski’s boss, McHenry County State’s Attorney Louis Bianchi. Bianchi allegedly had improperly influenced the handling of cases involving his relatives and political allies. Under command of a subpoena, Chrzanowski testified before the grand jury, and later, after receiving another subpoena, he…
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