Sweeping review of grand jury presentations underway in Chicago following misconduct revelations

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 5:23 PM EDT, July 1, 2026


WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department officials are conducting a sweeping review of more than 1,000 grand jury presentations made by Illinois prosecutors following the dismissal of a high-profile case over misconduct, the top federal prosecutor for Chicago said on Wednesday.

Andrew Boutros, the U.S attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, said the massive review will include all pending grand jury proceedings in his district as well as other presentations by prosecutors going back almost 20 years. It was sparked by revelations of grand jury misconduct that forced prosecutors to abandon a closely watched case against four activists who protested outside a federal building during last year’s immigration crackdown in the city.

“It’s going to be a massive review, a comprehensive review and it is underway,” said Boutros, who was in Washington for an unrelated news conference. Boutros said the process is meant to ensure that his prosecutors have “acted ethically” and to provide “assurances and confidence” that other pending cases have not been tainted by similar issues.

The Justice Department dropped charges against the activists in May after a judge scrutinized allegations of misconduct, which included a prosecutor meeting with a grand juror outside proceedings and other jurors who disagreed with the case being dismissed from participating.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-grand-juries-misconduct-chicago-c2c61795c49a45d17cc8de077882f7d6

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[Lonestarblue]

1. If I'm understanding this correctly, the misconduct was by the government prosecutor.

So now the DOJ is wasting tax dollars again investigating a Democratic city because their prosecutor talked to a juror in a case that probably had no merit since protesters against ICE have a right to protest. Amazing how they have time to prosecute protesters but no time to prosecute the ICE agents who clearly murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Because 45's US Attorney directed his staff to do a Pirro-style malicious prosecution

was caught, and called out on it by a judge, he is now going to manufacture "blame" that will be placed on the employees instead of himself, and even try to go back over a period of 20 years to harass anyone still around from back then.

[Grins]

8. And why go back 20-years?

How is that relevant to this SPECIFIC instance?

The only thing I could come up up with is ‘Delay, delay, delay’ Trump style.

BTW; who is doing the investigation?

[Joinfortmill]

3. Impeach. Donald. Now.

[OldBaldy1701E]

4. "Well, we tried lying and got caught. So, we investigated ourselves, and found that we did nothing wrong."

So, now they are going to go on an internal witch-hunt to try and find a scapegoat so that Cheetolini won't blame them for being inept and getting caught being inept.

Always rememberer, with these children, it is everyone's fault but their own.

[Miguelito Loveless]

5. ALL Grand Jury transcrips

should be reviewed by judges going forward. This administration cannot be trusted at all.

[SamuelAdams]

6. All these idiots doing Trump's bidding should realize he can't protect them from being disbarred.

They should ask Trump's lawyers like Kenneth Chesebro and John Eastman what happens when you try to please Trump.

[PatSeg]

7. A lot of truly short-sighted people

in this administration. Do they really think this clown show is going to last forever?