Former Harvey police Officer Derrick Muhammad – brother of former mayor – charged with extorting towing companies

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A Harvey police officer has been indicted with extortion, on allegations that he threatened to interfere with towing companies' ability to compete for city work unless they paid him off.

-- A former Harvey police officer was the prime suspect in a pay-to-play scheme in the south suburb, and is not the first time he has been trouble with the law.

Late Thursday night, all was quiet at Harvey City Hall. But federal prosecutors keep shining light on what the Kellogg administration did there. Muhammad is accused of shaking down tow companies along with a second unspecified person. The indictment said Muhammad"obtained cash payments and other things of value from private towing companies on the understanding that the private towing companies were paying Muhammad and Individual A."

with obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Prosecutors said they falsified a police report to protect two acquaintances – a father and son – from possible gun charges of illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.Now, nearly three years after Muhammad was snagged in that raid by federal agents at Harvey City Hall, the corruption continues to unravel.

 

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