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Chicago agrees to pay $20 million settlement in lawsuit over fatal crash caused by a drunk off-duty police officer
The city of Chicago will pay “$20 million to settle a code-of-silence lawsuit brought by the families of two young men killed in a fiery drunken driving crash caused by an off-duty police detective,” according to the Tribune. Former Chicago police detective Joseph Frugoli had a blood alcohol level of 0.328 percent when he hit Andrew Cazares’s car in 2009, killing Cazares and Fausto Manzera. [Tribune]
