Many individuals who were able to influence the scope of the Tylenol murders investigations were, or went on to become, criminals. It's painfully clear that all of the law enforcement agencies involved in investigating the Tylenol tamperings and murders were rife with corruption and that individuals at high levels within these organizations were beholden to the mafia.
Chicago Politicians
James Thompson – Governor (1977 – 1991)
Where is he now? Retired Chairman and CEO of Winston & Strawn
George Ryan – IL State Rep. (1973–1983); Lieutenant Governor (1983-1991) Secretary of State (1991-1999); Governor (1999–2003)
Where is he now? Prison - Ryan is a convicted felon serving a 6 1/2 year sentence at the satellite prison camp adjacent to the Federal Correctional Institution at Terre Haute, Indiana.
Ryan grew up in Kankakee County, Illinois. After serving in the U.S. Army in Korea, he worked for his father's two drugstores. He attended Ferris State College of Pharmacy (now Ferris State University) in Big Rapids, Michigan. Eventually, he built his father's pair of pharmacies into a successful family-run chain which was sold in 1990.
Tyrone Fahner – State Attorney General (1981-1982)
Where is he now? Retired - Fahner retired as Chairman of Mayer Brown LLP in 2007.
Fahner served on the Management Committee of Mayer Brown LLP from 1985 to 2007, including serving as co-Chairman (1998-2001) and Chairman (2001-2007)
Fred Roti – Chicago 1st Ward Alderman (1968-1991)
Where is he now? Died in 1999, a convicted Felon and made member of the Mafia.
Roti's political career abruptly ended in 1991, when he was charged with taking bribes to fix zoning and court cases. Two years later, he was found guilty and sentenced to four years in prison.
Roti became 1st Ward alderman in 1968. He soon became one of the most powerful members of the City Council. Roti was also a "made member" of the mob, according to the FBI -- a fact not made public until after his death in 1999.
Fred Roti was the son of Bruno Roti, Sr., the first capo of what became the 26th Street/Chinatown crew of the Chicago Outfit. Roti, Sr., owned a grocery store on the 2100 block of S. Wentworth Avenue, less than six blocks away from Alphonse "Al" "Scarface" Capone's headquarters, at 2135 S. Michigan Avenue. Fred's father, Bruno Roti, Sr., was known as "Bruno the Bomber" for his work as a gangster, alongside Al Capone, and was arrested twice in murder investigations.
Pat Marcy – Chicago 1st Ward Secretary
Where is he now? Marcy died while being tried for allegedly paying bribes to judges and attorneys to fix cases.
Marcy, a made member of the mafia, fixed the 1977 murder trial of mob hit-man Harry Aleman, who was accused of killing a teamsters' union steward, by paying $10,000 to the judge assigned to hear the case.
John D’Arco Sr. – Chicago alderman and legislator
Where is he now? Died in 1994 - Federal authorities say D'Arcohad ties to organized crime.
Federal prosecutors alleged D'Arco was involved in a plan to fix the 1977 murder trial of reputed mob hit man Harry Aleman. But D'Arco was not indicted. D'Arco, the target of numerous investigations in his four decades as committeeman, was never charged with a crime.
Both D'Arco's son, former state Sen. John D'Arco Jr., and his son-in-law, Pat DeLeo, went to prison as a result of the 1977 investigation, as did a former alderman, Fred Roti.
Edward Vrdolyak - Chicago Alderman (1971-1983); President of the City Council (1977 to 1983)
Where is he now? Pleading guilty to federal charges of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Mail Fraud.
On May 10, 2007, Vrdolyak was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of bribery, mail fraud and wire fraud. Prosecutors later added additional wire fraud charges, and Vrdolyak now faces a total of eight counts. The case centers on property that was sold by the Chicago Medical School.
Vrdolyak has long been the source of controversy, beginning with an attempted murder charge in 1960. The charges were dropped. He was censured by the Illinois State Bar Association in 1990 for a conflict of interest, and again in 2000 for improperly advancing money to personal injury clients. In 2005, Vrdolyak agreed to a 30-day suspension of his law license for allegedly double-billing clients he represented in sexual harassment cases.
Jerry Cosentino – IL State Treasurer
Where is he now? Cosentino died in 1996, a Convicted Felon
Cosentino pleaded guilty in 1992 to one count of bank fraud. Consentino admitted kiting millions of dollars in checks between accounts at Cosmopolitan National Bank and Cole Taylor Drovers Bank for his trucking company, Fast Motor Service Inc. The scheme to create phony balances in company checking accounts, which lasted a year during his second term as state treasurer, left Cosmopolitan holding the bag for $1.3 million in overdrafts.
Jane Byrne – Chicago Mayor (1979 – 1983)
Where is she now? Faded into obscurity.
Illinois State’s Attorney Office
Richard M. Daley – State’s Attorney for Cook County (1980-1989)
Where is he now? Chicago Mayor (1989-Present)
Chicago has been plagued with countless revelations of corruption while Daley has been Mayor. FBI under-cover investigations found that during the 1970s, 80s, and 90s the mafia thoroughly infiltrated the Chicago Police Department, Cook County Sheriff’s Office, the Chicago Judicial system, and the Chicago Political machine. Hundreds have been indicted and convicted as a result of the investigations.
During the 1970s and 80s, more than 100 suspects were tortured after being arrested by Chicago Police. Daley, who was told about the torture in 1982 when he was the State's Attorney in Cook County, did nothing. Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek reported the torture to Daley, but Brzeczek also failed to take action. Police Commander Jon Burge and many of his officers used barbaric devices to torture suspects, all black men, in order to force confessions. Many of the confessions were false.
Chicago Police Department
Richard Brzeczek - Chicago Police Superintendent
Where is he now? Brzeczek retired after he'd been exposed for his role in covering up the torture of more than 100 black men arrested during the 1970s and 80s.
By 1999, it was "common knowledge," according to U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur, "that in the early to mid-1980s, (Jon Burge) and many officers working under him regularly engaged in the physical abuse and torture of prisoners to extract confessions. Both internal police accounts and numerous lawsuits and appeals brought by suspects alleging such abuse substantiate that those beatings and other means of torture occurred as an established practice, not just on an isolated basis."
On April 23, 1980 Brzeczek held a press conference and said publicized charges of political and gangland pressure on the police department lodged by former Acting Police Superintendant Joseph DiLeonardi and two other former top cops, are untrue and are destroying the morale of the city's beat patrolmen.
Two decades later, DiLeonardi's allegations would prove to be understated; the Chicago Police had been completely infiltrated by the Outfit.
Jon Burge – Commander, Chicago Police Department (1981-1993)
Where is he now? Indicted on perjury charges for lying to a grand jury investigating the torture of over 100 suspects he and his officers arrested while he was Commander of the Chicago Police department (the statute of limitations on torture expired years ago).
Burge, a south-side native, may have learned to torture in Vietnam, where he served in 1968 and ’69. Veterans of his company have reported that they participated in the electrical torture of Vietcong suspects, shocking them using hand-cranked field telephones. A similar device was used to shock suspects at Area 2. The first publicly known complaint of electric shock interrogation, at Area 2, dates from 1973. In the years that followed Burge was promoted and served in other locations, then returned to Area Two in 1981 as commanding officer of the Violent Crimes unit.
Burge was fired in 1993 for "mistreating" a prisoner.
William Hanhardt – Chief of Detectives, Chicago Police Department (1981-1986)
Where is he now? Prison - Hanhardt is a convicted felon imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution in Waseca, with a projected release date of January 2012.
Hanhardt served in the Chicago Police department from 1953-1986. He was the highest ranking associate of the Chicago Outfit inside the Chicago Police Department. Hanhardt was appointed Chief of Detectives with behind the scenes help from three "Made Members" of the Chicago Outfit: Alderman Fred Roti, Democratic Committeeman John D'Arco Sr., and 1st Ward Secretary Pat Marcy.
After retiring from the department he ran a highly successful jewelry theft ring for the Chicago Outfit. In May of 2002, a retired Hanhardt pled guilty to racketeering and was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison.
James Dvorak – Lieutenant, Chicago Police Department (19xx-1986); Cook County Under-Sheriff (1986-1989)
Where is he now? Convicted felon; currently a Cook county real estate broker
Dvorak, a 25 year veteran with the Chicago Police, was sentenced to 41 months in 1994 for bribery and tax fraud. He was given an additional 41 months in 1996, after being convicted of ghost payrolling. He served his time at the Oxford Prison Camp in Oxford, WI. Dvorak was linked to test rigging and promoting hundreds who weren't qualified as part of a job-selling scam. While Under-Sheriff, Dvorak took bribes from mobster Rocco Ernest Infelise.
Cook County Sheriff’s Department
Dick Elrod – Cook County Sheriff (1970-1986)
Where is he now? Retired
Between 1981 and 1986, 47 office employees were convicted of criminal offenses, including four deputy sheriffs in the "Operation Greylord" court corruption probe and two vice unit cops for taking bribes from pimps and bookies in the "Operation Safe Bet" probe.
James Keating – Lieutenant, Head of Intelligence for Cook County Sheriffs' Office
Where is he now? Prison - Keating was sentenced to 40 years on federal racketeering charges. He was convicted of taking thousands of dollars in bribes from suburban bookies and sex clubs.
Keating, who was on the take while head of intelligence for the sheriff's police, bragged to an undercover FBI agent wired for sound that the 1982 gangland-style slaying of a suburban college official would never be solved.
Later, Keating was found to have killed the investigation of the 1978 murders of thieves Donald Renno and Vincent Moretti, in Cicero, according to a 1989 Tribune review of the case.
Operation Safe Bet turned up evidence of a cover-up within the sheriff's department of the murder of Dianne Masters, who disappeared on March 19, 1982. She was found dead Dec. 11, 1982, in the trunk of her car at the bottom of Willow-springs canal. Keating was convicted, in 1988, of aiding and abetting the planning of Master's 1982 murder by soliciting a police officer to kill her.
Bruce Frasch – Commander of the sheriff's vice unit
Where is he now? Convicted felon
Frasch was convicted on federal charges of racketeering, extortion, conspiracy, and income-tax fraud for accepting bribes from bookmakers and bordello operators, between 1977 and 1985, for protection from arrest. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Michael Corbitt – Deputy, Cook County Sheriff's Department (1982-1988); Chief of Police, Willow Springs, IL (1973-1982)
Where is he now? Died a convicted felon - He was paroled from prison in 1998 after serving ten years of a twenty-year sentence for racketeering and conspiracy to commit murder.
Corbitt was hired as a Willow Springs police officer in the mid 1960s. Chicago Outfit boss, Sam Giancanna, used his influence with the town's mayor to get Corbitt his job.
Corbitt belonged to the Outfit throughout his 25 year career in law enforcement.
Joseph Marren – Police Officer, Cook County Sheriff’s Office
Where is he now? Convicted felon
Marren, the 'bagman' who delivered payoffs to Lt. Keating, was charged with federal racketeering, extortion and criminal tax offenses. He was convicted and sentenced in 1986 to six years of prison and five years of probation.
Robert Wiencek - Vice Cop, on the force for 17 years
Where is he now? Wiencek was sentenced to 6 months in prison for his role in extortion conspiracy.
Robert Napora - 13 year veteran before he resigned from the sheriff's department in 1983
Where is he now? Napora was sentenced to 6 months in prison for his role in extortion conspiracy.
Labor Union Executives
Roy Williams – Teamsters President (1981-1983)
Where is he now? Died in 1989, a convicted felon. In 1982, Willliams was convicted on 11 counts of bribery, fraud, and conspiracy. The charges were brought after Williams and others atempted to bribe U.S. Senator Howard Cannon in order to get him to kill the trucking industry deregulation bill, the Motor Carrier Regulatory Reform and Modernization Act of 1980.
In 1985, Williams testified in a federal case that mobster Nick Civella paid him $1,500 a month for seven years in return for helping him get $87.75 million in loans from the Central States Pension Fund. Said Williams: “I make no bones about it. I was controlled by Nick Civella.”
Jackie Presser – Teamsters President (1983-1988)
Where is he now? Presser was still president of the Teamsters when he died in 1988. He was closely connected to organized crime, and became president of the Teamsters based on the approval of the Chicago mafia and support of the Cleveland mafia. From 1972 until his death, he was also an informant for the FBI concerning mafia influence in the Teamsters union.
Alan Dorfman – Financial Manager for the Teamsters Union Pension Plan
Where is he now? Dorfman was executed by the mob in January 1981 after being convicted on 11 counts of bribery, fraud, and conspiracy for attempting to bribe U.S. Senator Howard Cannon in order to get him to kill the Motor Carrier Regulatory Reform and Modernization Act of 1980. The hit was probably done to keep Dorfman from becoming a snitch in return for a reduced prison sentence. Dorfman was facing two other indictments, one involving an extortion charge in Chicago and the other an alleged kickback scheme involving two union locals in California.
Paul Glover - Vice President & General Counsel; Chicago Truck Drivers, Helpers, and Warehouse Workers Union
Where is he now? Convicted in federal court of taking more than $250,000 in kickbacks, Glover served prison time and was disbarred. Glover is still trying to work as a paralegal...
August 12, 2009: ... "The evidence established that [James G. Banks] knowingly hired a disbarred lawyer, Paul Glover, to act as his paralegal," the hearing panel said. "Although Glover did not maintain a presence in respondent's home office, he assisted respondent by reviewing client files, conducting legal research, preparing pleadings, communicating with clients and opposing counsel, and participating in discovery."
FDA
Arthur Hull Hayes - FDA Commissioner (1981-1983)
Where is he now? Pharmaceutical Industry executive and consultant since 1986.
Hayes Founded and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of MediScience Associates, Inc., a consulting organization that works with pharmaceutical firms, biomedical companies and foreign governments (1991-2006). Hayes was Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology at Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (1981-2004) He was President and CEO, E.M. Pharmaceuticals, a North American subsidiary of Germany's E. Merck AG (1986-1990); Director of QuantRX Biomedical Corporation since September 1, 2006; Director, Celgene
Mark Novitch – FDA Deputy Commissioner (1981 – 1985)
Where is he now? Pharmaceutical industry executive and consultant since 1993.
Dr. Novitch served in the senior executive positions with the Upjohn Company, a medical products company, from 1985 to December 1993, including Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, Corporate Executive Vice President, and Corporate Senior Vice President for Scientific Administration and Corporate Vice President. He served as Vice Chairman and Chief Compliance Officer of the Upjohn Company since December 1993. He has been a Director of Guidant Corp. since 1995. He serves as a Director of KOS Pharmaceuticals Inc. He served as a Director of Neurogen Corp. since December 1993. He served as a Director of Alteon Inc., from 1994 to 2006. He served as a Director of Calypte Biomedical Corp. since September 1995.
Frank Young: FDA Commissioner (1984 - 1989)
Where is he now? Pharmaceutical industry executive and consultant.
Young currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Cosmos Alliance and is a partner of Essex Woodlands Health Ventures. He has been a Director of La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company since 2005. He currently serves on the board of Golden Pond Healthcare, publicly held special purpose acquisition company and the boards of the following private companies: Agennix, Inc. and Elusys Therapeutics, Inc. Hayes was elected in Oct. 2009 to the Board of Directors of Light Sciences Oncology
Young was demoted out of FDA Commissioner job in 1989 during a scandal over corruption in approval of generic drugs, the proliferation of misleading health claims on food packages, and the newly emerging controversy over deaths and injuries from medical devices. FDA officials were convicted of taking bribes.
Johnson & Johnson
James Burke - J&J CEO
Where is he now? Retired, fat and happy.
Dave Clare – J&J President
Where is he now? Retired, fat and happy.
Larry Foster – J&J Vice President Public Relations
Where is he now? Retired, fat and happy.