A Chicago police supervisor who was disciplined for his role in the department’s shoddy handling of the reinvestigation into the 2004 death of David Koschman — who was punched by a nephew of then-Mayor Richard M. Daley — was promoted to lieutenant.
Sam Cirone will be assigned to the Area 3 detective division, the same unit that handled the investigation into Koschman’s death, according to police department sources.
Cirone, who was a sergeant in the Area North violent crimes unit, now Area 3, was among four supervisors and two detectives accused by city Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s office of violating department rules during the second look into the death of Koschman, who died 12 days after being hit by a single punch by Richard Vanecko, Daley’s nephew, after a brief, drunken confrontation in the Rush Street nightlife district.
One of the two detectives under Cirone’s supervision, Nicholas Spanos, was suspended for a year in the case but skipped most of that suspension by using accrued paid leave time, according to a report from Ferguson’s office. James Gilger, the other detective working for Cirone on the case, left the department before facing any discipline.
In its decision to only reprimand Cirone, the police board found that while he supervised an investigation “that was not entirely thorough,” the board laid blame on Cirone’s superiors in the detective division for shoddy work.
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