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CHICAGO — the nephew of former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley was indicted Monday for involuntary manslaughter in the 2004 death of a 21-year-old man outside a Chicago bar, and a grand jury still are investigating authorities covered or an examination of a relative of the most powerful man in the city hindered.
Richard Vanecko, 38, was in the death of David Koschman of Mount Prospect Cook County indicted by a special jury. Koschman died days after he fell and his head during a fight with outside a bar in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood Vanecko beaten.
The indictment States that Vanecko "through the use of physical violence and without legal justification, reckless acts that were probably carried out death or great bodily harm to another, and such acts caused the death of David Koschman."
On Monday afternoon, the mother an emotional News Conference in which they Koschman talked about meeting by her son bed for almost two weeks for taking him off life support.
"I'm going to go tell David that he can be in peace tomorrow," said Nanci Koschman, who added that she hopes that the indictment and investigation will clear her son's name.
"When that detective in came and said that your son is located, it is his responsibility, that is like a knife by a mothers heart," she said.
She and her lawyers said they are hopeful that the relationship with the research what role played in research Vanecko Mayor will answer. Koschman the family argued earlier this year that the Cook County State Attorney's Office political ties with Daley and not suited to the case.
Koschman the family also has argued there was a cover up police and because of that, asked for a special prosecutor.
Koschman had praise for the Chicago Sun-Times, who said they helped spur the investigation with a series of articles about the handling of an initial research questions.
The judge who is former u.s. Attorney Dan Webb as the Special Prosecutor in April agreed that there is evidence to support allegations of misconduct of the police in the original investigation, including ignoring or wrongly recording witness statements and labeling the victim as the aggressor was appointed.
In public statements, prosecutors and police acting in self-defense despite Vanecko depicted as have never interviewed or spoken to him, the judge said when he ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor.
A message left for the lawyer was not immediately Vanecko back on Monday, and a man answering a telephone number listed to Vanecko hanged.
Webb said In a statement that the grand jury investigation into whether the Chicago Police Department and the County State Attorney office "acted deliberately to suppress and hide evidence, furnish evidence as false and generally hinder the investigation" is still "in a powerful pace."
Webb the statement did not indicate what, if any, conclusions are reached, only that "have reviewed thousands of documents and interviewed more than 50 witnesses have." The new release also contains that Koschman 5-foot-5 and 125 pounds, was while Vanecko, then 29, 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds.
A message left at the Office of Dick Devine, that of the State Attorney at the time of the death, was not immediately Koschman back. But the current state Attorney, Anita Alvarez, Office defended her handling of the case.
Alvarez told the Sun-Times that her Bureau research earlier this year, when a special prosecutor was appointed only terminated.
"We were not done and then the order came for the Special Prosecutor, and ending my research," she told the newspaper.
On Monday, said Nanci Koschman after the fight, she was told by a police detective that she would be "impressed" by which Vanecko was related to and that if they sued, his family had the means to bind the case in court "for years."
She also said that she doesn't want to see Vanecko sent to prison, to explain that they are not thinking that he "went out that night" plan to hurt her son. Still, she said, an apology of the "would be nice," but she added that she didn't expect that to happen.
Vanecko later this month will be indicted and bond is set at $ 100,000.
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