Taxpayer-funded money-making schemes flourish under progressive government officials – Martin Preib’s Crooked City

"The beneficiaries in this instance are once convicted murderers -- almost always men of color -- exonerated of their crimes, sometimes decades after the murder. New evidence is rarely introduced in the cases, but claims of police and prosecutorial misconduct are. ... Once exonerated, their lawyers file wrongful conviction lawsuits in federal courts, cases that are nearly always settled before trial by Cook County and Chicago officials mortified, as Minnesota officials are, at prospect of isolating their political based for being labelled racist."