Stories by Jodi S. Cohen — ProPublica

The Trump administration has justified its dramatic midnight raid on a Chicago apartment complex by saying that it had intelligence that the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. New documents confirm in the government’s own words that what prompted the raid was more pedestrian: allegations that immigrants were squatting.

A former Chicago police officer facing trial for perjury and forgery has admitted he lied under oath dozens of times when he used an audacious alibi to get out of numerous speeding tickets and other traffic violations.