So the Sun Times has an article up about Lori's new head of security:
- In a break with tradition, Mayor Lori Lightfoot will hire a retired deputy U.S. marshal to run her security detail, with one mayoral aide noting that “it’s a dangerous time in our country.” Police Supt. Eddie Johnson on Monday told the Chicago Sun-Times, “We don’t really comment on executive protection, but at the end of the day the mayor has to be comfortable with her detail.”
Johnson said he believes Lightfoot has confidence in the police. “This is her police department now,” he said.
The retired deputy marshal is James M. Smith, a managing member of a private security company called Silver Star Protection. Smith declined comment Monday.
And buried at the end of the Sun Times article where no one would think to read that far, this little tidbit:
- In 2016, Smith was mentioned in a Sun-Times story about former law-enforcement officials with ties to the medical-marijuana industry.
Wait, what now? There's a link to that story, too:
- As cops, part of their jobs was to put away drug sellers and users. Now, former law enforcement officials are doing private security work for Illinois’ now-legal medical marijuana industry.
[...] James Smith, a former U.S. Marshals Service inspector who spent nearly 30 years with the federal agency who is a managing member of Silver Star Protection Group.
So, Lori's head of security is
- in a city that pretty much decriminalized weed, making it a ticket
- in a County that refuses to prosecute weed offenses
- in a State that is making huge strides toward complete legalization of weed
- running a security company that makes money protecting weed operations
Seems like the connected are still making money by being connected.
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