Veteran prosecutor sues Kim Foxx, claiming she was demoted and fired for being 53 and White – CWB Chicago

Nancy Adduci, who is White, claims she was wrongly replaced as head of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit by a young attorney with little experience and a “blatantly obvious conflict of interest” who is Black: Michelle Mbekeani. Adduci was 53 years old and 22 months short of retirement eligibility.
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debtsor
1 year ago

If you think this attorney’s firing is the only antiracism policy enacted by Kim Fox, you are being naive. *Everything* about her office is is antiracist. Turnover at her office has been just short of spectacular. An NBC article from October 2022 said that 235 people had left in the previous 15 months. The article said that at Bridgeview instead of having 20 state’s attorneys for 10 courtroom, they had 6 state’s attorneys for 10 courtrooms. And the thing about Bridgeview is that is a suburban ‘white’ courthouse where most of the lawyers are (were) white. The non-BIPOC lawyers mostly… Read more »

Tom Paine's Ghost
1 year ago

The only way that this tyranny stops is if Foxx has to personally pay and suffer for her evil.

Deb
1 year ago

Hope she wins. Age and racial discrimination is illegal.

Zephyr Window
1 year ago
Reply to  Deb

Make Foxx pay punitive damages out of her own pocket and send a message

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