Chicago approves $90M payout over disgraced ex-sergeant who framed hundreds for drug crimes

The groundbreaking deal closes out 176 lawsuits involving 180 wrongfully convicted people who spent close to 200 years combined behind bars, marking an end to one of the Chicago Police Department’s darkest chapters. Disgraced former police Sgt. Ronald Watts and the unit he led for nearly a decade u...

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