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STATE PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY
STATE PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY
A screenplay by Brian R. Lundin
PROLOGUE
UNITED STATES FEDERAL DISTRICT COURT- ROOM 205 –DECEMBERL 1, 1995-MORNING
Judge Anna Willis opened the trial and the prosecutor first witness was Charles Localle an insurance agent for Ravenswood Insurance Company.
PROSECUTOR
Mr. Localle did your insurance company insure the guards for State Security?
LOCALLE
Yes.
PROSECUTOR
How many guards did you insure?
LOCALLE
Two hundred!
PROSECUTOR
What was the premium for two hundred guards?
LOCALLE
Seventy-five thousand dollars payable every six months!
PROSECUTOR
State Security had over four hundred guards how much more would the premium be?
LOCALLE
Approximately two hundred twenty-five thousand every six months.
PROSECUTOR
Thank you.
The government next witness was IRS agent Tom Dart.
PROSECUTOR
Did State Security file income tax returns for 1991, 1992 and 1993.
` DART
No sir.
PROSECUTOR
How much does State Security owe the IRS?
DART
Approximately five million dollars!.
PROSECUTOR
Thank you.
The next witness was Christopher Luden
PROSECUTOR
What is your position with the Chicago Housing Authority?
LUDEN
I’m the Director of Contract Security and the Police Department.
PROSECUTOR
What are the duties of Contract Security?
LUDEN
To assign and monitor the contracted guards to ensure they are on their post, armed and properly licensed.
PROSECUTOR
When you say properly licensed, what do you mean?
LUDEN
The state of Illinois requires everyone working as a Security Guard to hold a state-certified Security Officer License and Illinois PERC Card during the duration of their employment. Before you can apply for a Security Guard License in the State of Illinois, you have to obtain your Illinois PERC Card. A Perc Card is a document to inform your future employers that you have passed a Criminal Background Check through fingerprint submission. This way they are assured that you have not committed any felonies. Anyone who wants to apply for any type of security related work in the state of Illinois must first obtain his Illinois PERC Card. If you do manage to get hired as a security officer without holding a valid PERC, you and your employer risk heavy fines. Here’s a breakdown of the requirements you have to meet to apply for your Illinois PERC Card: Applicants must be at least 18 years of age – 21 for armed security guards. a US citizen or have a US work permit, have your fingerprints taken through electronic fingerprint processing by a Live scan Certified Vendor and they must have TAN card indicating they are authorized to carry a firearm.
PROSECUTOR
What happened if the security guard were not on his post, not armed or didn’t have the proper credentials?
LUDEN
The guard company wouldn’t get paid for that site and an infraction report would be submitted by the coordinator.
PROSECUTOR
What is the job of the coordinators?
LUDEN
The coordinators monitor sites that contain guards and if they find an infraction they submit a report to the time-keeper who deduct the money paid to the company.
PROSECUTOR
Was John McBride one of your coordinators?
LUDEN
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
You said your department assigned the guards, will you tell the jury how that worked?
LUDEN
After a building was swept I would get a call from CHA headquarters to supply guards to that location.
PROSECUTOR
What is a sweep?
LUDEN
A sweep is an inspection of a CHA building to identify the lease holder, remove unauthorized people living in the building, make repairs and secure the building with private security guards.
PROSECUTOR
What would you do then?
LUDEN
I would contact the guard company with the least amount of guards and ask them if they wanted the building, if they refused I would then go to the next company with the least assigned guards until I found a guard company who would take the assignment.
PROSECUTOR
When would you contact State Security?
LUDEN
State had the most guards so they would be contacted last after the other guard companies refused.
PROSECUTOR
Did State Security ever refused?
LUDEN
No!
PROSECUTOR
How many guards did State Security have providing security at CHA building?
LUDEN
They had over three hundred private security at 42 CHA buildings.
PROSECUTOR
What would happen if all the guards company refused an assignment?
LUDEN
(smiling)
I would have probably been fired, thanks to State Security that never happened.
PROSECUTOR
Thank you, sir.
The next witness was Hosea Rodriquez
PROSECUTOR
Mr. Rodriquez was you employed by State Security?
HOSEA
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
What were your title and duties?
HOSEA
I was a vice president and I was responsible for the deployment of the guards and reviewing the inspection reports.
PROSECUTOR
Have you been given a grant of immunity for your testimony and cooperation in this investigation?
HOSEA
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
Do you know John McBride?
HOSEA
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
How!
HOSEA
He was a coordinator for contract security.
PROSECUTOR
Did you agree to pay John a thousand dollars a month to overlook some of the infractions by your guards?
HOSEA
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
Did you have to get authorization to make the payments to John?
HOSEA
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
From whom?
HOSEA
Susan!
PROSECUTOR
Tell the jury how the ghost pay-roller scheme worked.
HOSEA
If a guard quit we would get his check and cash it.
PROSECUTOR
Did Susan or Robert know of the scheme?
HOSEA
Susan knew.
Susan jumps from the defense table and screams, “Lier, Lier.”
The judge admonishes her.
PRSECUTOR
Did you have a romantic relationship with Susan?
HOSEA
She tried to seduce me but she was too old for me.
PROSECUTOR
Thank you.
The next witness was John McBride.
PROSECUTOR
Have you been given a grant of immunity for your testimony and cooperation in this investigation?
MCBRIDE
Yes!
PROSECUTOR
Did you receive a thousand dollars a month to overlook irregularities by State Security guards from Hosea Rodriquez?
MCBRIDE
Yes sir.
PROSECUTOR
Were any other employees of CHA involved in the bribe?
MCBRIDE
No sir.
PROSECUTOR
Why did you report the bribes to the FBI.
MCBRIDE
They had arrested my younger brother for dealing drugs and I hoped if I gave them Hosea, they would go easy on my brother.
PROSECUTOR
Did they?
PROSECUTOR
No, they lied to me and he was sentenced to twenty years.
The government rested their case and the defense only witness was Robert.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Robert what was your involvement with State Security?
ROBERT
Unfortunately I wasn’t too involved with the day to day operations of the company I left most of the operation to Susan and Hosea while I tried to get more security contracts.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
Did you know anything about the bribes, ghost payroll fraud, failure to pay income taxes or insurance fraud?
.
ROBERT
No!
DEFENSE ATTORNEY
No further questions!
PROSECUTOR
Mr. Malkowski is you telling this jury that you was unaware of all these charges and you had little input in the operations of a company that was making over fifteen million dollar a year company.
ROBERT
(lowering his head)
Yes sir.
PROSECUTOR
No further questions.
The judge read the jury their instructions and they began their deliberations. After two days of deliberations the jury returned with a guilty verdict on all charges for Robert and Susan Malkowski. Three week later the judge sentenced Robert and Susan to seven years in a federal penitentiary, confiscated their home, vehicles and bank accounts.
Judge Anna Willis removed her eyeglasses and looked over the bench at the two middle-aged couple standing before her. Susan Malkowski Italian, thirty-five, very dark with dark eyes and dark hair. She was about five-three, slender but had extra large breast. Robert was ten years older, Polish and stout, the judge shuffled some papers and began reading.
JUDGE
Robert and Susan Malkowski you have been found guilty by a federal jury of numerous crimes, I shall read you these charges before announcing my sentence: Income tax evasion, frauding the insurance companies you engaged, ghost pay-rolling, diverting and laundering funds of over $800,000 in fraud proceeds, over billing,. Medical Fraud in that you was hospitalized during the trial for a period of four days at Ingalls Medical Center in Harvey, Illinois for a collapsed disc. Your treating physician Dr. Daniel Kimball had several conference calls with the court, US Attorney and your attorney. His diagnosis was a collapsed disc and you were medicated with Dalaudin and Norco, two powerful narcotic pain medications. MRI tests conducted at the hospital by showed several physical problems but the government brought in a Doctor Martin Land, M.D. and he testified that you were malingering and or faking the illness, after that your bond was revoked. The government has stated in their briefing memo that you attempted to obstruct justice by delaying trial through faking your illness and bribing a public official.
At the end of the day, your single biggest problem was trying to supervise the Rodriquez brothers. Basically the Rodriquez brothers were in business for themselves along with John Esters and other employees and they pretty much did as they pleased. The single biggest issue was geography. While you and Susan were largely based out of the far north side of Chicago, the Rodriquez brothers worked on the far south side office on 47th street office where the majority of the guards worked, where the CHA buildings were and everything of substance that occurred happened on the south side. The Rodriquez brothers were trusted employees and officials of your company.. The nature of contract security work at the volume that you were operating is one of poor receivables and never ending overhead and payroll. Clients who are government entities are notoriously "slow payers" in paying invoices to private contractors. This is a good thing for the CHA and a living breathing nightmare for anyone who has to make payroll every Friday, no matter what the issue. Robbing Peter to pay Paul is quite common for private contractors. I sentence you both to seventy-two months in a federal penitentiary to be determined by the Federal Bureau of Corrections.
The judge banged her gavel and walked out the court room. Robert was handcuffed behind his back by a United States Marshal and led to the exit door in the rear of the court room. As they were leaving he looked at Susan who was in tears as she was being handcuffed, she blew him a kiss but he turned his head.
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INT. METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER-CELL 3A- April 2, 1997-MORNING
Robert Malkowski sat on the bed in his six-by-six cell and wondered what had happened. How he had been just a fool. He remembered the Director of Contract Security asking him how could he let two uneducated brother run a multi-million dollar company, the reasons were very clear now. Robert and five other men boarded the US Marshal Office van at five in the morning for the nine-hour drive from Chicago to Duluth Minnesota. Robert looked out the barred windows and noticed all the high-rise office buildings in downtown Chicago. The Van turn into Interstate 94 West and ten am the van stopped at a rest stop in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and the men were allowed to use the washrooms accompanied by three marshals and two Government police officers. Robert noticed mothers holding their children closer as they got out the van. One little black boy maybe five being pulled by his mother looked at Robert waved and smiled, Robert smiled back. Before long they were in Wisconsin and were given cold bologna sandwiches and cold drinks. Five hours later they were on the flat plains of Minnesota with it rolling hills and lakes.
INT. DULUTH MINNESOTA MINIMUM SECURITY PRISON 2 -MAY 1, 1997-LATE EVENING
At two in the afternoon they arrived at the Federal Prison Camp that was located on the former Duluth Air Force Base near the southwestern tip of Lake Superior, halfway between Minneapolis-St. Paul and the U.S.-Canadian border, and 7 miles north of Duluth. The institution is also known as a Federal Prison Camp that have dormitory style housing, a relatively low staff-to-inmate ratio, and limited or no perimeter fencing. The institutions are work- and program-oriented; and many are located adjacent to larger institutions or on military bases, where inmates help serve the labor needs of the larger institution or base.
Robert noticed there were no barb-wire or guard towers it looked like a college campus. They were led into a well decorated room and were interviewed and screened by staff from the case management, medic and mental health units. Later, He was assigned to the Admission and Orientation (A&O) Program, where he received a formal orientation to the programs, services, policies, and procedures of that facility that outlined security, safety, and sanitation concerns. After being stripped-searched he was issued clothing, hygiene items, and bedding, and told about the laundry services and that he could purchase other personal care items, shoes, some recreational clothing, and some food items through the commissary. Robert was assigned to the prison laundry where he worked eight hours and earned .12 an hour. After work and a light dinner he slipped on a pair of slippers and grabbed the rough towel and slowly walked to the shower house. He adjusted the hot water as hot as he could stand.
The steam filled his lungs and throat, Robert hope this was a bad dream and the hot water would awaken him from this nightmare, it didn’t. After the shower he returned to his room, laid on his bed and reflected on how Susan always looked out for the Rodriquez brothers, how she insisted over his objections that he accompany them on their trip to Cancun and how one afternoon he saw them kissing at the pool. He remembered how when he asked her about it she shrugged it off and the next minute they were in the bed and she was giving him a head job. He thought about how they met.
Susan was ten years younger than him and she worked as a stripper at one of the Gentlemen Clubs in an unincorporated area of Cook County where he worked as a Deputy Sheriff. Man, was she hot when she did her pole routine sliding up and down the pole wearing on a g- string and a bra which had a hard time holding in her big tits. Every night he stopped in to catch her act and finally he got up the nerve to ask her out. They had a nice and expensive dinner at the Como Inn and spent the rest of the evening in bed. Man, she was a terrific fuck. He remembered he didn’t like her showing off his shit at the club and he convinced her to move in with him at his home in Barrington Hills. He had just received his real estate license so he quit the sheriff department and opened a real estate office on the northwest side and Susan was the office manager. Soon afterwards mainly because of his gregarious and good natured personality the company prospered and he found out about her uncle Vito who referred customers. He was deeply in love with her although he did notice she was flirtatious. He now admitted to himself that he was “pussy whipped.”
INT. DULUTH MINNESOTA MINIMUM SECURITY PRISON –DAY ROOM -MAY 3, 1997-SUNDAY MORNING
Robert sat a table and opened his trial transcripts, he had booked marked all the pages containing testimony and he flipped the pages until he got to Hosea Rodriquez. Hosea was given immunity if he testified against the company even though he admitted under oath that he had paid a Contract Security Coordinator to overlook the guards not being on their post, thereby avoiding the company being docked a full shift pay, admitted using ghost pay rollers and cashing the checks and keeping the money and with the help of the company’s dispatcher sold over time to guards in exchange for receiving a portion of their overtime pay. He next flipped to the testimony of Henry Peeler his accountant that embezzled the money that he gave to him for the taxes. The checks were earmarked for tax payments and Peeler placed them in a company account and didn't send the money in, yet he was also charged with income tax evasion and Peeler was allowed to relocate to Las Vegas Nevada where he took a job as the accountant for the Blue Chip Sports Betting Parlor. Peeler's boss, a guy by the name of Ilescu, was having an affair with a stripper who worked at the Crazy Horse Saloon in Las Vegas, Ilescu asked Peeler to kill her boyfriend and Peeler brought a hit man from Chicago by the name of Jason Paris to do the job. Paris lured the boyfriend, Bruce Ray Fisher, out of his apartment on the ruse of having hit his car in the parking lot. Once outside, Paris shot him in the head. They were planning another hit when the Las Vegas police arrested them. Robert closed his eyes and shook his head, how could I have been such a fool he wondered?
INT. DULUTH MINNESOTA MINIMUM SECURITY PRISON DORMITORY ROOM #2-MAY 1, 1997- NIGHT
Robert wondered as he sat on his bunk if a part of his mind had been altered by his experience if maybe his recollections were unclear maybe some were but one thing intact was his memory which, he searched daily, compulsively. Nothing in his memory was too inconsequential to tear away and examine. His memories were all he had especially at night when he was alone in what the government called a dormitory room but to him it was his hell, his prison that was always too cold and the realization he would be in here for seven years. The memories blocked out the distant cries from his cellmates and some of the obscene games that the prisoners played with each other.
Like most men in his situation he examined and re-examined every aspect of his life and because of this examination went on night after night it required the discipline of accuracy. With one piece of information he could isolate a face or a person and that what bewildered him now, where had he gone wrong? He reflected back on all he had lost now all he had was memories. After he was convicted the government seized his home, his bank accounts everything. Why and how had it come to this? He wasn’t a thief or guilty of any of the charges for which he had been convicted. How did he not see all that was going on in his company and fail to see that the Rodriquez brothers were behind everything but they could not have acted alone, was his wife involved in their schemes if so why, she had everything she wanted. He read the transcripts from the trial and especially Hosea and Roberto Rodriquez under a grant of immunity. Hosea admitted being involved in the ghost payroll scheme occurred, however, it was occurring out of the 47th Street office in the persons of John Ester, Hosea Rodriquez and his brother Roberto. He was not involved and knew nothing of it, but did Susan know and authorized it, but again why she didn’t need the money. The transcripts described how the scheme worked it involved the Rodriquez brother submitting false payroll reports listing numerous dismissed and no longer employed guards. They would then receive their payroll checks from the main office. Once in possession of the checks, Hosea and Roberto would go to the currency exchange at 26th South Western Avenue and cash their checks and the money would be split between the brothers and Ester.
Robert was amazed at the fraud committed against the company from the lowest guard to the highest ranking employee, schemes and plots were the norm. The transcripts read how employees would routinely sign in and leave their posts and the supervisors were always trying to figure out how to steal. Robert put the file back into his briefcase and put his head in his hands, why would Susan do this to me he wondered.
INT. METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER-CELL 4B- April 5, 1997-MORNING
Susan Malkowski glanced in the mirror at herself. She hated the green smock she had been issued, her hair was a mess and she wore no lipstick. She wet her lips with her tongue and rubbed her cheeks hoping to put some color in them. A female guard entered her cell.
GUARD
You ready?
SUSAN
Yep!
The guard led Susan to the basement garage where two US Marshal were waiting. The male marshal shackled Susan arms and legs while the female marshal searched her, helped her into the van and sat in the rear, there were three other women in the van all shackled. The 180 miles trip to the Peking Correctional Camp took four hours.
INT. PEKIN FEMALE CORRECTIONAL CAMP ORIENTATION CENTER-AFTERNOON
When they arrived, the women were led into a large room where they were interviewed and screened by staff from the case management, medic and mental health units. Later they were ushered into another room where they received a formal orientation to the programs, services, policies, and procedures of the facility. They were then stripped-searched and were issued green smocks, hygiene items, and bedding, Susan was assigned to the prison library.
INT. PEKIN FEMALE CORRECTIONAL CAMP ROOM 6A- 2 MAY 1997-NIGHT
Susan day started at five in the morning. After washing she went to the cafeteria for breakfast and reported for work at eight. She was assigned to the prison library check out desk where she issued library cards and checked out and in books by the inmates. She got off work at three and had the rest of the evening off until nine pm when the lights were turned off. At night she sat on her bed and remembered.
Susan couldn’t sleep she kept thinking about Hosea and how he had betrayed her. She was aware of the bribes to McBride but she didn’t know anything about the ghost pay-rollers. She remembered how at their trial Hosea who pleaded guilty to bribery had lied about her knowing about the ghost pay-rollers and implicated her and Robert in the bribery of John McBride. She knew that she could control Robert with a head job or a fuck and he never looked over the books. She was responsible for lying to the insurance companies about the amount of guards they had and falsifying their income tax returns, now she had lost everything, her home, her freedom and Robert.
FLASHBACK: 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-JUNE 10, 1989-MORNING
Robert and Susan sat on the balcony of their expensive high-rise condo and watched the colorful sail boats on Lake Michigan reading the newspapers. Susan as usual was looking at the sales and Robert was reading the news.
SUSAN
(sliding a sales page over to Robert)
Look at these shoes aren’t they the bomb?
ROBERT
(glancing at the page)
For two hundred bucks they should explode.
SUSAN
(laughing)
Once a Pollock always a Pollock.
Robert continues to read and stop at as ad for the Chicago Housing Authority.
ROBERT
The CHA is opening bids for private security guards.
SUSAN
What you know about security?
ROBERT
Nothing really but I was a Cook County Sheriff for ten years and shit, policing is policing! I think I will check it out.
SUSAN
Why not, the real estate business has gotten really slow, we haven’t sold any property for three months and our saving is dwindling down.
INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY OFFICES- JUNE 11, 1989-MORNING
Robert is greeting by a pleasant elderly black woman.
ROBERT
I’m interested in getting some information on the security bids.
WOMAN
(pointing to a table in the rear of the room)
There are packets on the table that for the security bids, help yourself!
Robert thanks the woman and picks up the packet.
INT. STARBUCKS COFFE SHOP-MORNING
Robert orders a black coffee sits down and began to read the packets. After an hour he leaves and returns home, Susan is trying on her new shoes.
INT. 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-JUNE 11, 1989-AFTERNOON
SUSAN
(walking around)
You like?
ROBERT
I though you said our savings were dwindling down.
Susan come close to Robert, hugs him and start rubbing his penis.
SUSAN
Let’s go to bed, I’ll make you forget about our savings and everything else and don’t forget we’re having dinner with uncle Vito.
INT. COMO INN ITALIAN RESTURANT-SIX PM-12 JUNE 1989
Robert, Susan, Vito Carmine and Maria Blanca a black haired beautify of twenty-two are sitting in a rear booth in a private room. Robert is sipping a scotch and soda, Susan and Maria a Margarita and Vito a glass of Chianti.
VITO
Susan was telling me you are thinking about goin’ into the security business.
ROBERT
Yeah, the CHA is taking bids for contracted security guards and I picked up some literature this morning.
VITO
How does it sound?
ROBERT
Its sound good but you got to have a big buck upfront.
VITO
How big a buck?
ROBERT
Well first you got to have a million dollar insurance policy, then you got to
hire and equip the guards and they have got to armed, you got to have a communication system, radios and shit, I figure to get started, if I would get the bid, I will need about a million dollars in cash or line of credit.
VITO
Well put your bid in and we’ll see what happens.
SUSAN
We decided to name our company State Security.
INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CONFERENCE ROOM- JULY 11, 1989-MORNING
A short stocky black man stood at the podium in front of ten men sitting in the audience.
WOODS
Thank you all for coming. My name is Reginald Woods and I am the Legal Counsel and Chief Operational Officer for the CHA. I will give you some insight on what we are planning that requires private security. the chairman has gotten the approval from Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to begin a massive make-over in our high rise building and senior citizen’s buildings. He is adamant in bringing safety and sanity back to the city's public housing developments that are home to an estimated 175,000 people. In the first six months of the year, 39 people were murdered in public housing complexes. Last year, 68 died on Chicago Housing Authority property. There are some 25,000 units that are in need of substantial rehabilitation, These projects, like many in other cities, had become the poster children for the media’s discussion of rampant drug abuse, gang violence, dysfunctional family life, the evils of welfare and the bureaucratic incompetence of public social welfare programs. There are 28 16-story buildings mostly in U-shaped clusters of three, containing almost 4,300 apartments and 27,000 people in the Robert Taylor Homes alone and the Cabrini Homes, houses 25,000 people. Although the ACLU has filed a federal lawsuit hoping to block the inspections the chairman has instituted an unwritten policy to conduct warrantless searches of entire buildings if random gunfire became too frequent to ignore. Just last week there were more than 300 separate shooting incidents and 13 people were killed and a manager was forcibly removed from a building at gunpoint and the closing down of management offices. This violence was the result of a "war" between two rival street gangs concentrated in five buildings, we have identified 125 buildings which need to be inspected and secured but eventually all of the buildings will be “swept.” What the chairman is proposing is a series of unannounced “sweeps.” These “sweeps,” will be coordinated with the Chicago Police and our maintenance, building and inspection department. Police officers will accompany our inspectors as they inspect the apartments and if contraband is found the police are there’re to make the arrest. The inspectors will ensure the lease holder is the person living on the apartment and unauthorized people will be arrested. After the inspections our maintenance department will make any repairs needed in the apartment and building. Our building department will construct guard sheds in the lobby and private security guards will man these sheds and the building will be locked down, only residents of the building will be allowed in.
The chairman is also planning to start a CHA Police Department. As I’m sure you know the high rises are breeding grounds for criminals, the residents are afraid to leave their apartments because of the gangs that do their drug dealing business in the hallways and lobbies. Innocent children are being injured and killed on their way to school or playing in the playground by drive-bys. This will be a big undertaking and we will need a lot of guards. The packet you all received lay out the requirements we expect from you, are there any questions? If not Mrs. Robinson will now pass out the bidding forms and the bids will be sealed and once the chairman has selected the lowest bidder you will be notified and you have a week to submit them, thank you for coming.
INT. 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-JULY 11, 1989-AFTERNOON
SUSAN
How did it go?
ROBERT
Ok, I believe there is some money to be made here I am going to bid twenty dollars a guard and see what happens. That uncle of yours is something else he must use a lot of Viagra to keep up with those young fillies.
SUSAN
Uncle Vito likes his young women and by the way I got you some Viagra for your old age.
ROBERT
(rubbing her behind)
I’ve got your Viagra right here.
A week later Robert turned in his sealed bid and two weeks later he got a call from Attorney Woods.
WOODS
I ‘m calling to inform you that the chairman has accepted your bid of twenty dollars per guard but before your bid is approved you must first bring in a million dollar insurance policy from a reputable insurance company when you get the policy let me know.
ROBERT
Let’s call uncle Vito!
Vito Carmine sixty years old was the senior capo in the Chicago Outfit or crime syndicate and he was Susan Carmine- Malkowski uncle on her father’s side. Vito control all the Outfit rackets on the north side of the city and the Outfit controlled four bank and three insurance agencies they used to launder their money. He arranged the million dollar insurance policy and three million dollar line of credit at his banks. A week later Robert called Attorney Woods and told him he had the insurance policy and he would have a copy sent over by messenger. Two weeks later he was contacted by Attorney Woods and set up a meeting with the chairman.
INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN OFFICE – AUGUST 20, 1989-MORNING
CHA Legal Counsel Reginald Woods introduced Robert Malkowski to Chairman Charles Longstreet. Chairman Longstreet fifty-two, tall probably six-two and looked in good shape and carried himself with confidence. He had made his fortune in a black website and made substantial contribution to black causes and rumored to be the leading candidate to be the next HUD Secretary. He was handsome, single and known around the city as a ladies’ man.
CHAIRMAN
I have approved your bid and look forward to working with you. I have also accepted the bids of three other security firms and I hope we can get the ball running by spring 1992, do you think you will be ready?
ROBERT
Yes sir we’ll be ready.
CHAIRMAN
If you have any questions contact Reginald he’ll be my point man.
INT. CHICAGO POLICE ACADEMY-SEPTEMBER 1, 1989- MORNING
Sergeant Chrisopher Luden was a thirty year veteran of the department and was anxiously looking forward to retiring in January 1992. He was a highly decorated officer and had a PhD in Criminal Justice from the University of Virginia and a graduate of the FBI National Academy. The sergeant was the Commanding Officer of the Human Behavior Unit at the academy and also taught classes to police recruits. He was in his office when Chairman Longstreet and Attorney Woods entered who introduced themselves.
WOODS
We have heard some good things about you sergeant and we was wondering if you would come to work for us.
LUDEN
Well yes, I’m planning on retiring in January and we can talk then.
CHAIRMAN
We’re not talking about January we’re talking now.
LUDEN
(surprised)
I can’t possible leave now that would mess up my retirement.
CHAIRMAN
We’ve already talked to the superintendent and he will give you a leave of absence until January, so your retirement won’t be affected.
LUDEN
What will my job be at the CHA?
CHAIRMAN
You will be our Deputy Chief of Police.
LUDEN
When do you want me to start?
WOODS
This Monday! I will have a car pick you up at home Monday morning at eight.
LUDEN
Whew, you guys move fast.
CHAIRMAN
We have too, time is running out, Monday we will meet at my office and we will tell you our plans.
LUDEN
See you Monday.
INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CONFERENCE ROOM- SEPTEMBER 3, 1989-MORNING
Sergeant Luden and Reginald Woods sat in the attorney’s office. There were fresh pastries, pitchers of orange juice and coffee on a table in the rear of the large spacious office.
WOODS
Your leave of absence has been approved by the superintendent effective today now let me explain what we are planning. The chairman is intent on providing safe and decent housing to the CHA residents and he is determined to make the high rise and senior citizen buildings safe for the residents. Next year he will start performing what he calls “Sweeps.” These “Sweeps,” will consist of various agencies in the CHA making inspections of every apartment, making repairs and evicting the squatters and people not on the lease. CHA personnel will inspect the apartments and will issue photo identification cards to residents. Tradesmen will also determine what physical improvements are needed, such as repairing elevators and painting over graffiti, fixing leaking sinks, etc.
Violence at the Taylor Homes, as well as Stateway Gardens, directly to the north, has escalated during the last several weeks after the breakdown of a truce between rival gangs. The rivalry between the gangs is over control of drug sales in the buildings and the areas surrounding them and the residents say they need some type of security in the buildings and the hallways. In 1988, the chairman began hiring private security companies to patrol the developments but they are worthless; most of time they can’t be found and they are probably over-billing us. They supposedly are monitored by our Contract Security Department but they really don’t have the resources to adequate monitor them. In additions to your duties with the police department the chairman wants you to be Director of that department. Also the chairman is planning on starting an in-house security company so hopefully in a couple of years we can get rid of the private security companies. The purpose of the unannounced sweeps of the apartments to evict people who are not on the leases and checks for contraband that have led to confiscation of military plastic explosives, detonators, shotguns, handguns and ammunition, in an attempt to wrest control of the complex from drug-dealing gangs but a federal judge temporarily blocked the Chicago Housing Authority from conducting emergency weapons sweeps after the American Civil Liberties Union filed a protest, saying searching tenants' apartments without a warrant or their consent violates their constitutional rights. Never-the-less the chairman is determined to not only continue the sweeps but expand them.
LUDEN
Will the department be involved?
WOODS
The Chicago Police Department will provide security and be on hand if any contraband is found. Then we will have our people from personnel checking each apartment to ensure the people living there is on the lease and not squatters. Then our maintenance department will make any necessary repairs in the apartment and the housing department will build guard sheds in the lobby and make the necessary repairs inside the building and two security guards will be assigned around the clock and everyone who enters must be signed in by a resident. We currently employ three security companies that are deployed in our senior buildings but he plan to extend that service to all the high rises in the city and he plan on starting our own security officers and police department. As you know we have hired forty-five police officers and they are due to graduate from the academy very soon. The chairman fired the chief yesterday and we have to get prepared for the officers when they graduate, let’ take a ride to your office. I have set-up an office for you on the first floor at 4950 South State Street and have assigned you a very competent office staff.
INT. 4950 SOUTH STATE STREET FIRST FLOOR SEPTEMBER 3, 1989-MORNING
When they arrived, CHA carpenters, painters and maintenance men were busy.
LUDEN
Do you have a police station and a communication center?
WOODS
We have identified and selected this entire first floor to be used as our police station and communication center we need you to set it up also the Contract Security Department will also be housed in that location! The Department of Contract Security and will be in charge of monitoring the security guards to ensure they are doing their job and most importantly are there. Right now we have no way of monitoring the guards and I know we are getting screwed and paying for guards who are not on duty. Also I want you to develop an operational plan for monitoring of the guards. We know we are getting ripped off by the security companies we have now and with the anticipated number of guards we will have when we start the “Sweeps,” we want to make sure that the guards are performing their duties.
LUDEN
How many guards do you think you will need?
WOODS
We anticipate covering all of our buildings maybe a thousand. The chairman wants you to develop an operational plan to monitor the guards and your department will also be responsible for scrutinizing their invoices and forwarding them to the payroll department. Your office is set up and your office staff is all computer literate and waiting for you. You can pick up a vehicle in our garage, questions?
LUDEN
A lot but I’ll wait.
LUDEN
We have a big job in front of us let’s take a ride to the 2nd District everything they have we must have.
Luden, Woods, Mr. Sonny Ellis, the Director of Buildings arrived at the police station after the early roll call and identified themselves to the desk sergeant.
LUDEN
Sergeant we would like to look around at your station.
SERGEANT
Go ahead, look around.
LUDEN
The first thing we need is a desk. The desk is the heart of a police station.
As they toured the station Luden pointed out the roll call room, watch commanders office, review room, holding cells, interrogations rooms and lockers. After they completed their tour they returned to Luden’s office.
LUDEN
(looking at Sonny)
Think you people can construct what we saw at the police station in two months.
SONNY
It will ready when your police officers graduate!
Sergeant Luden looked up at the red stone high rise building. Nothing had changed from when he was a patrolman and sergeant in the 2nd Police district at 51st South Wentworth Avenue. People were already out sitting in the enclosed floors. Babies were wailing and a group of youngsters were pimp walking and loitering in the playground.
INT. CHA POLICE HEADQUARTERS -4950 SOUTH STATE STREET-1 JANUARY 1990
LUDEN
The first class of CHA Police Officer graduating consisted of 86 males and 5 females was trained and graduated from the Timothy J. O’Connor Chicago Police Academy as state certified Police Officers. Luden assigned twenty males and three females to the 2nd Watch or 8:00 AM-4:30 shift and the remaining officers were assigned to the 3rd Watch; 4:00 P.M.-12:30.
Welcome officers as you probably know the CHAPD, was created as a supplement to the Chicago Police Department, to provide dedicated police services to the residents of one of the nation’s most impoverished and crime ridden developments for low income housing. We will accomplished our daily goals by utilizing "community oriented policing techniques and aggressive vertical patrol" of all Chicago Housing Authority properties throughout the inner city of Chicago, Illinois and some suburban areas.
The CHAPD was envisioned by Chairman Charles Longstreet Chicagoan Vince Lane who has taken a personal stance in rectifying the safety and living conditions of the residents by ushering in the repair of dilapidated low and high rise buildings, combined with improved protective services for the inhabitants. Complaints from the resident’s about the lack of police protection and presence of the Chicago Police Department, as well as the documented concerns of CPD officers who felt patrolling public housing was unsafe and dreaded answering calls for service there, went unanswered by the Mayor, but were a major concern of Lane’s. The solution to combat the rampant gang related drug sales and crime was to create his own police department to work within the system of the Chicago Police, but unhampered by the boundaries of CPD’s assigned districts. Since public housing was spread throughout various neighborhoods and local suburbs the CHAPD was endowed with a broader jurisdiction.
Because of the design of the buildings, clusters of row houses, three story dwellings, or varying high-rise structures, we will be deployed in densely populated community on a daily basis. It is the mandate of the CHAPD to instill a constant sense of security in the residents. I know the average citizen within the boundaries of Cook County and the City of Chicago will be confused about the legitimacy of the CHAPD and questioned whether they were "the real police". Since the CHA had employed the use of contract security firms since the 1960s and created its own security force at the same time that the CHAPD was formed, the general public assumed that the new department and its members were also security and did not possess the power of arrest. The local media added to the public being misled by referring to the new patrolmen as a "security force" or "...presence", but never as "police officers" but they were wrong you have the same powers as Chicago Police officers. Public housing is considered a battleground instead of an average beat. Your work environment will expose you to more extreme situations that the average CPD officer would encounter in the first five years on the job, so the physical fitness and combat training was intensified to give the first class a necessary edge for their efficiency and daily survival.
You are entrusted to do a job that the city's vast and famous police department had been incapable and fearful of, along with successfully paving the way for future hires, I know you will make me proud!
INT. 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-MARCH 4, 1990-AFTERNOON
Robert, Susan and uncle Vito sat on the balcony and looked at the blue waters of Lake Michigan while eating lunch.
VITO
How is everything going?
ROBERT
It’s going, I’ve contacted a uniform store to make our uniforms and your brilliant niece has designed the uniforms, I’m looking at a building on the southside that we will use as our office also Susan contacted Motorola who will lease us the radios and equipment and I’ve put an ad in all the papers for security guards.
VITO
Let me know if you need anything.
SUSAN
How’s Maria?
VITO
(smiling)
I guess she is doing fine, I set her up in a little business on Taylor Street, she’s happy and she gave me a lot of happiness, but you know how I am my eye is always roaming.
SUSAN
Thank God for Viagra.
They all laughed.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET-AFTERNOON- SEPTEMBER 4, 1989-MORNING
The office had been converted from three apartments and contained five offices each equipped with computers and a small conference room. Chrisopher arrived at the office at seven am his staff would not be at until nine that would give him time to get a feel of the place. He had contacted Woods and been given the approval to hire Raymond West a retired police officer and six retired police officers as Contract Coordinators whose job would be to monitor the contracted guards in the sweep buildings. He was met by an attractive older woman in her late forties who introduced herself as Serena People the office manager. As she led him into his office she called for the rest of the office staff and introduced Harriet Williams, the time keeper, TJ Turner, the security coordinator and Sylvia Thomas his executive secretary.
SERENA
Welcome Mr. Luden, Mr. Woods called and said you were on your way and we’re looking forward to working with you.
LUDEN
Please call me Chris, Mr. Luden make me feel too old. I understand that you already are monitoring some private security guards at senior citizen buildings?
TJ
Yes sir, we have approximately fifty x security guards at our thirty seven senior buildings, but there is no monitoring we don’t have the staff.
LUDEN
Well the first thing we have to do is get additional staff so we can make sure the guards on their post and doing their duty, I’ll call Mr. Woods and see about hiring additional staff or re-deploying some CHA personnel.
About seven thirty West entered.
WEST
Thanks for bring me aboard, Chris… oops I meant director.
LUDEN
(smiling)
Cut the bullshit West, you’re my main man.
WEST
What’sup?
LUDEN
The first thing we’re going to do today is develop an operational plan on monitoring the contracted guards. I know they are probably fuckin’ us and then later we will interview the six retired policeman I’m thinking about hiring.
WEST
Do I know any of them?
LUDEN
Yeah, you know Nelson Wills and Mark Beisly they worked out of the old deuce.
WEST
Yeah, I worked with both of them good guys.
At eight thirty Serena arrived and was introduced to West.
SERENA
You guys drink coffee.
LUDEN
Two black with a little sugar.
Shortly the rest of the office staff arrived and Luden, West and TJ Turner, the security coordinator met in the director’s conference room. TJ a tall black woman in her early thirties wore a Bulls jacket and cap and was attractive in a non-feminine way.
LUDEN
TJ I’m appointing West as the security coordinator you will work directly with me and I’m warning you I will try to pick your brain there’s a lot for me to learn, ok?
TJ
(smiling)
OK!
LUDEN
Firstly how many security guard companies do we have?
TJ
Three, Bigsby, Chicago Protection and Secor and they all assigned to the thirty –seven senior buildings.
LUDEN
All they all manned twenty-four hours?
TJ
No, only the larger ones most have one guard who works midnights.
LUDEN
So how many guards are there per day?
TJ
I would estimate maybe fifty guards a day.
LUDEN
How do we know if the guards are there?
TJ
Sometimes the building manager will call if the guard is not there, otherwise we don’t really know if the guards are there or not.
LUDEN
How are the guard company paid?
TJ
The guard submits their invoices twice a month and Harriet Williams, the time keeper review them and submit them to the finance department to issue the check.
LUDEN
Ok, TJ thanks, we’ll talk later.
WEST
This system is fucked up!
LUDEN
Agreed!
Serena People rushed into the office.
SERENA
A resident just got shot in Trumbull Park Homes and the chairman wants you over there!
Luden, West and TJ headed out the door and Luden threw the keys to West, Luden got in the passenger seat and TJ got in the back.
LUDEN
Give me a brief rundown on Trumbull Park Homes.
TJ
The last of three Public Works Administration projects commissioned in Chicago as part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Built in 1938, the development features a low-density design of two-story roughhouses and three-story apartment buildings spread out across 21-acres. Turmoil erupted in 1953, when the first Black families moved into Trumbull. Daily outbursts of rioting broke out and continued for more than seven months. From 1953 to 1957, sporadic acts of violence, including aerial bombs, riots and arrests, accompanied the move-in of black families. The subject made a 1954 issue of Time Magazine and spurred a march on city hall by the Chicago Negro Chamber of Commerce. Today, the scene at Trumbull Park Homes is much more tranquil. The outdoor common area features beautifully landscape grounds, repaved walkways and grilling pits perfect for summer barbecues. All 434 units are renovated with new kitchens, bathrooms, lighting fixtures and flooring.
WEST
Do they have security?
TJ
No!
EXT. TRUMBULL PARK HOMES- 5 SEPTEMBER 1989-AFTERNOON
When they arrived at the scene the police was trying to control the crowd. West saw a sergeant he knew and walked up to him.
WEST
Whatsup, sarge?
SERGEANT
Whatsup up West, what you doing here, I heard you retired?
WEST
I did I’m working with Sergeant Luden at the CHA. What happened?
SERGEANT
The only thing we know so far is that the victim a nineteen year old man was walking through the area and was popped, the ME has pronounced. The detectives are interviewing witnesses but you know these people don’t talk to the police.
LUDEN
Will the CHA get a copy of the report?
SERGEANT
Yes.
As they were talking Luden saw Woods and the chairman getting out their car and walking towards them. Luden introduced West and the sergeant.
LUDEN
So far the police investigation only knows the victim is dead but they will send us a copy of their report.
CHAIRMAN
I approved your request for the retired police officer; this incident is why we need to hurry up on the sweeps.
LUDEN
Well nothing else we can do here, I scheduled and interview for the officers this afternoon.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET-AFTERNOON
When they returned to the office Nelson Wills and Mark Beisly were waiting, West directed them into the conference room where Luden was waiting.
LUDEN
The CHA is planning to hire hundred of private security guards next year and will need qualified people to monitor them, that will be your job and you will report to West, interested?
Both men nodded yes.
LUDEN
Good, tomorrow go to CHA headquarters and fill out the paper work call me when you’re finished and I’ll send a car for you.
Serena enters the conference room.
SERENA
Mr. Woods just called and said one of the security companies who have been approved owners is on their way to meet you.
An hour later Robert and Susan were directed by Serena into Luden’s office Robert looked in is late forties, looked a lot younger, dark skin and a nice body and was dressed in what appeared to be a designer pant suit.
ROBERT
I understand that you are a retired police officer I retired from the Cook County Sheriff last year.
LUDEN
I’m not retired yet I’m on a leave of absence until the first of the year.
SUSAN
(in a flirtatious manner and holding out her hand)
We’re looking forward to working with you director.
LUDEN
(shaking her hand)
When will you be ready?
ROBERT
Well, there are a few things we have to get together. We have to establish an office on the southside, recruit some guards, get radios and a few other logistics I figure we will be ready in about two months.
LUDEN
Good call me when you’re ready.
ROBERT
Will do and again nice meeting you.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET- OCTOBER 10, 1989-AFTERNOON
West, TJ Wills and Beasley spent long hours during the last month working on a monitoring plan for the guards. They met with Luden in the conference room.
West
I think we finally got the monitoring plan together.
LUDEN
I’ll read it later, tell me the highlights.
WEST
Well we’ll concentrated out efforts on the Robert Taylor Homes since that is the largest development in the city with twenty-eight sixteen story buildings 4,300 apartments and 27,000 legal residents. If each building has two guards on three shifts that’s six guards per day per building or 168 guards per day. Our plan calls for two security coordinators per shift and they should be able to monitor all twenty-eight buildings during their shift. If a guard is not on his post, don’t have the proper credentials or is unarmed we will dock the security company for the whole shift.
LUDEN
Sounds good to me give it to Serena so she can type it up and then I’ll present it to the Mr. Woods.
The following morning Luden presented the Plan to Mr. Woods. Two days later he was summoned for a meeting with the chairman.
INT. CHICAGO HOUSING AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN OFFICES- 15 OCTOBER, 1989-MORNING
CHAIRMAN
I and Reginald have reviewed your monitoring plan and it sounds good, have you got your coordinator on board yet?
LUDEN
No sir not yet but when you’re ready to start the sweeps they will be on board.
WOODS
I noticed that you recommended we start at the Robert Taylor Homes any particular reason?
LUDEN
Yes sir, Robert Taylor is the largest development in the city and probably the most crime ridden and dangerous and it a sort of confined area that way two coordinator per shift will be able to inspect all twenty-eight building. If the sweeps are expanded throughout the city naturally we will need more coordinators.
CHAIRMAN
For your information I have decided to move the date of the sweeps they will start next month. I have talked with Robert Malkowski and he said he has thirty guards all properly licensed and armed. So let’s get this show on the road so our residents will be safe.
LUDEN
Let’s go!
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET- NOVEMBER 15, 1989-AFTERNOON
Luden and West met with Robert and Susan and they were told the provisions of the monitoring plan.
LUDEN
I want to emphasize that the integrity of my coordinators will not be questioned, if they report your guard were not on their post, that’s final, no discussion and you will be docked for the whole shift, do you agree with that and is that understood.
Robert and Susan nodded in agreement.
LUDEN
Have all your guards have Perc Cards and Firearm owner’s cards?
SUSAN
All the guards we have worked security before and they have the cards and the training to be armed.
LUDEN
Good, the chairman is going to start the sweeps next month and I will call you.
INT. ROBERT TAYLOR FIELD HOUSE- DECEMBER 5, 1989-EARLY MORNING
The field house was filled with CHA employees some were rubbing their eyes while others were trying to wake-up. Mr. Woods was standing at the podium.
WOODS
This morning we are going to sweep the building at 5335 South Federal Street. This is one of our most problem buildings that are controlled by the gangs and drug dealers. The Chicago Police Department is on their way and they will be on the balconies when we arrive. Once they are in place we will go in, so hang tight until we get the word, any questions?
EXT. 5335 SOUTH FEDERAL STREET
At five-thirty the CHA teams moved out. On each balcony were a group of Chicago Police Officers in full riot gear and CHA personnel carrying clip boards started entering the apartments with maintenance men. People were yelling and cussing at the police and Luden noticed some young men handcuffed and being shoved into squadrols. In the lobby workmen were busy construction the guard shack later he was joined by Mr. Woods.
WOODS
This is something to see, I’ve talked with the carpenters and they said the guard shack should be ready by two afternoon better get your guards lined up to start at three this afternoon.
Luden returned to his office and called in his staff.
LUDEN
Serena notified Robert and told him that we will need two guards at 5335 South Federal at three and every eight hours after that. Call Willis and Beasley and tell them to be in the office at two and who are the other coordinators?
WEST
Thomas Bradford, William Turner, Roger Hickman and Angelo Blount, all good guys I worked with them.
LUDEN
Good, set up their schedule.
At one that afternoon Robert and Susan arrived at his office.
ROBERT
We have six guards ready to go and they’ll be ready at three, another team will report at eleven-thirty and another team will relieve them in the morning.
LUDEN
(handing Robert a package)
Good, the chairman’s office has distributed a Visitation Guidelines Manual to all the residents; go over it with your guards. In essence it’s just a guide on who can be admitted into the building. The residents will be issued I.D. Cards that they must show the guards and how to admit visitors.
SUSAN
Do you want the guards to patrol the stairwells?
LUDEN
Not at this time we are more concerned about restricting admission into the building.
SUSAN
What should our guards do if there is a problem?
LUDEN
Call 911; there are telephones in the guard shack. Tell your guys to be careful, there are some dangerous people in those buildings.
Every two weeks the CHA conducted sweeps in the Robert Taylor Homes and confiscated guns, drugs and large amount of cash but despite the posting of guards in the lobby and arrests made by the Chicago Police Department the violence continued. Gang members were constantly shooting at each of from the balconies. By April, 1992 CHA had wept fifteen of the twenty eight buildings and State Security Company had guards in each building and was paid $54,000 a month their expensive were about $30,000, the rest was profit. State Security operational office was located at 651 West 47th Street and the business office was located at 5100 North Pulaski on the far north side in Robert’s real estate office. Susan had promoted Hosea Rodriquez a twenty three year old Hispanic security guard to Vice President and was in charge of the south side office and he promoted his twenty year old brother Roberto as his assistant. Susan was the business manager at the north side office Robert or Susan very seldom visited the south side office.
FLASHBACK: 5350 NORTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE APARTMENT 24A-SEPTEMBER 1, 1992
Robert and Susan had acquired security contracts with United Airline, State of Illinois Department of Children and family Services, United States Department of Justice immigration and Naturalization Services and Resolution Trust Corporation. State Security was generating a profit over a million dollars a year that Susan spent freely. She purchased a new Porche for herself and a BMW for Robert in addition to two limousines and a new house being built with an indoor pool. Robert and Susan help sat on the balcony with uncle Vito.
VITO
Things are good, huh.
Susan
Very good and we have a thank you gift for you.
Robert gave Vito and envelope.
ROBERT
There are one hundred thousand big ones for you as thanks for all your help.
Uncle Vito smiled and put the envelope in his pocket.
INT. 5100 NORTH PULASKI - STATE SECURITY OFFICES-20 Nov 1992-NOON
Hosea Rodriquez and Susan were alone in the north side office discussing the shootings of a young boy and girl at 4848 South State Street.
HOSEA
According to the police report one bullet struck Kevin White, 8, near the temple. The boy ran to the locked back door of the nearest building, at 4920 South State and tried to get inside but our guards wouldn’t let him in. He then ran to another building where he collapsed. Kevin was listed in fair condition Wednesday, a Cook County Hospital spokeswoman said. Megan Warren, 4, injured when a bullet grazed the back of her head, also was in fair condition Michael Cooper, 29 was shot in the leg, and is in fair condition, no arrests have been made.
SUSAN
Well they can’t blame us all the shootings happened outside of the buildings.
HOSEA
Yeah but at the shooting involving Kevin one of the resident at the complex, said she saw a security guard ignore Kevin White as he banged his hands on the back door of a building after he had been shot and the security guard was just sitting there and wouldn`t open the door.
SUSAN
What do they expect the guards to do when the gang members shoot 24 hours a day and it’s hard to be on a job like that when your life is always in danger?
HOSEA
Luden’s coordinators are killing us with infractions they took $25,000 from us last pay period.
SUSAN
Yes, I know we’ve got to figure some way to stop those infractions.
HOSEA
I’ll think of something!
SUSAN
Keep me informed.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET- OCTOBER 15, 1992-AFTERNOON
The rest of the high-rises in Robert Taylor Homes were swept and State Security had all of them and was being paid over a $100,000 a month despite the many infractions and deductions found by the coordinators. With the additional buildings and the chairman’s plan to sweep all the eight buildings in Stateway Gardens Luden had to hire six more coordinators that were not retired police officers but former security guards. The city's neglect was evident in the littered streets, poorly enforced building codes, and scant commercial and civic amenities. To serve and protect this dreadful community was overwhelming even for the Chicago Police Department. Police intelligence sources say that elevated number of homicides was the result of gang "turf wars", as gang members and drug dealers fought over control of given Chicago neighborhoods. Its landlord, the (CHA), has estimated that $45,000 in drug deals took place daily. Former residents of the Robert Taylor Homes said that the drug dealers fought for control of the buildings. In one weekend, more than 300 separate shooting incidents were reported in the vicinity of the Robert Taylor Homes. 28 people were killed during the same weekend, with 26 of the 28 incidents believed to be gang-related.
Arson was common in this place for covering-up of various crimes. Two other guard companies, American Security and Freeway Security had been approved to provide security and agreed to take four building each at Stateway Gardens Robert and Hosea were regular visitors at the office unsuccessfully disputing the infractions found by the coordinators but Robert was always gracious and friendly while Susan would send a limo to take his female staff to dinner at expensive restaurants.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET-NOVEMBER 1, 1992
Luden and West sat in Luden office reviewing the infraction reports.
WEST
John McBride is a go getter he’s hammering those guys from State.
LUDEN
Yeah, I’ve noticed. What’s his background?
WEST
He was a supervisor for six years with Ajax security before they went out of business, he’s pretty good.
LUDEN
Tell him to keep up the good work.
For the next two months the coordinators were costing State Security over a $100,000 a month in infractions but State Security was still clearing $450,000 a month but because of the dangers of working in the building many of the security guards quit.
FLASHBACK: INT. 5100 NORTH PULASKI - STATE SECURITY OFFICES-20 DECEMBER 1992-NOON
Hosea and Susan sat in her office sipping champagne and going over the infractions reports submitted by Contact Security.
SUSAN
That John McBride is killing us with his infractions he costing us thousands of dollars each pay period.
HOSEA
I talked with John and I think for the right price he might be willing to overlook some of the infractions his wife just had their third baby and they are hurting financially.
SUSAN
You’ve got to be careful if he flips on us we would be in big trouble and probably lose the contract.
HOSEA
I will!
INT. 4850 SOUTH STATE SECURITY GUARD SHACK-3 JANUARY 1993-EVENING
John McBride was questioning the security guard when Hosea arrived.
JOHN
Where is the other guard?
GUARD
He’s having car problems he said he was on his way.
JOHN
I’ve got to write this up as an infraction.
HOSEA
John can I talk to you a moment?
John and Hosea leave the building and sit in John’s car.
JOHN
What’sup?
HOSEA
John you’re killing us with all these infractions, can we do anything?
JOHN
Like what?
HOSEA
Maybe we can reach an agreement we’ll be very grateful.
JOHN
What kinda agreement?
HOSEA
Name a price!
JOHN
How about a grand a month and I’ll go easy on you?
HOSEA
Sounds good but I have to talk it over with some people, ok?
JOHN
Let me know.
INT. 5100 NORTH PULASKI - STATE SECURITY OFFICES-5 JANUARY 1993-MORNING
HOSEA
I talked with John McBride and I think he would go alone for a grand a month.
SUSAN
Can you trust him?
HOSEA
I think so he’s hard up for some money.
SUSAN
Set it up but don’t let Robert know about it.
HOSEA
Ok!
Hosea met with John set up the bribe.
INT. 651 WEST 47TH STREET-10 APRIL 1993-MORNING
Hosea and his brother Roberto who was the Chief Operating Officer sat in Hosea office.
HOSEA
About how many guards have quit this month?
ROBERTO
Maybe five this month.
HOSEA
Have to told Susan?
ROBERTO
No, not yet.
HOSEA
Don’t! We can get their checks and cash them at Afredo’s Currency Exchange.
ROBERTO
Sounds good to me!
For the next six months the brothers kept the checks send out from the north side office.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET-MAY 10 1993
West, Harriet the time-keeper sat in Luden’s office and reviewed the coordinators infractions report.
HARRIET
Seems like State has finally gotten the message, their infractions are way down.
LUDEN
Wells that good maybe they have gotten the message.
Harriet leaves the office.
WEST
I’ve been getting some troubling reports from the coordinators working with McBride.
LUDEN
What kinda of reports?
WEST
Some of the guys told me that John don’t want to check State’s guards, instead they check the other companies guards.
LUDEN
What you think is going on?
WEST
I don’t know!
LUDEN
Check it out and let me know.
WEST
Will do!
INT. 5100 NORTH PULASKI - STATE SECURITY OFFICES- JUNE 1, 1993-AFTERNOON
Susan had giving Robert a blow job that he was feeling good as he reviewed the infraction reports.
ROBERT
Our infractions have really gone down; Hosea must be doing a good job.
SUSAN
He is, maybe we should give him and this brother a little bonus.
ROBERT
Whatever you think babe.
INT. CONTRACT SECURITY OFFICE-4950 SOUTH STATE STREET-September 10 1993
Luden and West were in his office when Serena burst in.
SERENA
There are two FBI agents waiting to see you.
LUDEN
They say what they wanted.
SERENA
No!
LUDEN
Show them in!
Serena left and a few minutes later returned with the agents who presented their credential and identified themselves as Special Agents Miles and Sumpter.
MILES
We have received word that one of your coordinators has been taking bribes from State Security.
WEST
Which one!
MILES
John McBride.
LUDEN
How did you find out?
SUMPTER
His younger brother is a major drug dealer and a high ranking member of the GD street gang. We arrested his brother and he was looking at getting a lot of time if convicted.
MILES
That’s when John came into our office and told us he would give up State Security if we helped his brother.
SUMPTER
He told us that he had been a grand a month for the last six months from a State Security Vice President named Hosea Rodriquez to overlook infractions.
WEST
That’s why his infraction reports on State had fallen off.
SUMPTER
When we grabbed Hosea he admitted to the bribes and said that the owners knew about and authorized the bribe. Further investigation revealed that not only was State bribing your guy but had a list of irregularities, including income tax and insurance fraud.
LUDEN
Anymore of my guys involved?
SUMPER
I don’t think so, just John.
WEST
What happen now?
MILES
Well, a secret grand jury has indicted Robert and Susan Malkowski and they will be arrested tomorrow and the CHA Chairman is going to revoke their contract and John and Hosea is in custody.
LUDEN
Whow!
The following morning FBI agents and Chicago Police Officers arrested Robert and Susan at their north side offices and brought them to the FBI Headquarters in downtown Chicago and placed in separate interrogations rooms, agent Miles interrogated Robert.
INT. FBI INTERROGATION ROOM- SEPTEMBER 11, 1993-AFTERNOON
ROBERT
(confused)
What is this all about?
MILES
Is Hosea Rodriquez employed by your company?
ROBERT
Yes, he’s one of our vice president.
MILES
Were you aware that he was bribing contract security coordinators named John McBride?
ROBERT
Hell no!
MILES
Were you aware your accountant was pocketing the money intended for your income taxes.
ROBERT
No!
MILES
Were you aware that your company understated the number of guards you have to the insurance companies, thereby reducing your premiums.
ROBERT
No.
Agent Miles looked at Robert in disbelief.
MILES
Are you trying to tell me that you have a multi-million company and you don’t know what was happening with the ghost pay-rollers and everything?
ROBERT
Yes, Susan handled the books and Peeler my accountant handled the accounts and payroll deductions for income tax reporting. What are you talking about ghost pay-rollers?
MILES
Hosea said that he and his brother kept the checks of guards who had quit and he also said that you and Susan knew all about it.
ROBERT
(angry)
He’s a fuckin’ lier.
MILES
Well you are going a hard time convincing a jury of that, by the way your accountant was killed in an attempt robbery of a Vegas Brinks truck.
ROBERT
What about Susan?
MILES
She’s on her way to the MCC.
An hour later Robert was transported to the Metropolitan Correctional Center and the following day appeared before a United States Magistrate who set their bond at $100,000 apiece, Susan sister and Robert’s mother and brother put up their houses for the bond.
INT. EDITH MALKOWSKI HOME BEDROOM-13 SEPTEMBER 1993-MORNING
Robert and Susan sat on the bed Susan was naked and leaning up against Robert and was running his penis.
SUSAN
Wants some head?
ROBERT
No, not now.
SUSAN
(pouting)
What’s wrong?
ROBERT
The FBI agent said that there were ghost pay-rolling going on at the southside office, that Hosea admitted giving a bribe to John McBride, that Peeler was pocketing the money intended to pay Internal Revenue, that we were understating the number of guards we had to the insurance companies, do you know anything about it.
SUSAN
(angry)
Hell no!
ROBERT
Hosea said you authorized the bribes, did you?
SUSAN
Fuck naw! I might have made a clerical error about the guards reported to the insurance company.
ROBERT
Well, all of our bank accounts are frozen and we can’t get into our house.
SUSAN
Fuckin’ feds, let’s fuck.
Robert walked out the room.
EPILOGUE
THE DOWNFALL OF STATE SECURITY WAS DUE TO GREED AND NEGLECT. AND LET THIS FICTIONAL ACCOUNT BASED ON TRUE EVENTS AND LET THIS BE A WARNING TO OTHERS WHO THINK THEY CAN DEFRAUD ENTITES DEALING WITH FEDERAL FUNDS,
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