Chicago US Attorney's Office Reviewing Past Grand Jury Proceedings After Another Case Tied to 'Broadview Six' Prosecutor

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Chicago US Attorney’s Office Reviewing Past Grand Jury Proceedings After Another Case Tied to ‘Broadview Six’ Prosecutor Falls Apart

Chicago’s embattled U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said his office is reviewing scores of grand jury cases from across the 20-year career of the prosecutor now facing misconduct allegations from the “Broadview Six” protester case.

A third criminal case connected to Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg has fallen apart after Boutros himself filed an unopposed motion Monday to dismiss charges in a separate arson case.

In that motion, Boutros said his office has undertaken a review of more than 100 grand jury cases Mecklenburg indicted dating back as far as 2007 after he discovered “serious irregularities” in Mecklenburg’s “grand jury presentations.”

That review is necessary, in part, to “to restore the judiciary’s, defense bar’s, and public’s confidence in the grand jury practices and proceedings” held within the Northern District of Illinois, Boutros said.

https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/22/chicago-us-attorney-s-office-reviewing-past-grand-jury-proceedings-after-another-case

Looks to me like they might be trying to scapegoat Mecklenburg for all of the Office's misconduct.