Vanecko judge has link to old Daley Machine

When the high-profile manslaughter case of a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley was shifted to a McHenry County judge, the judge quickly made one thing clear."I do not know anyone involved," Judge Maureen P. McIntyre, who got the case because of concerns regarding Cook County judges' ties to Daley, said on Jan. 18. "My family does not know anyone involved."But McIntyre, a Republican originally from New York, does have family connections to the Democratic Party in Chicago going back to the time it was run by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley, whose grandson Richard J. "R.J." Vanecko's involuntary manslaughter case is now before her, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found.
In a politically explosive case in which connections are a central issue, McIntyre's newly revealed ties are likely to draw close scrutiny.Now divorced, McIntyre married into a family that for two generations held government patronage jobs.Her live-in ex-husband and former law partner Raymond X. Henehan's late parents both had patronage jobs in Cook County government until they retired in 1981.And fresh out of college, Henehan had government jobs in the early 1970s with Cook County, the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois. His longest tenure in those posts was two years as a traffic investigator for a Chicago City Council committee headed by Ald. Paul Wigoda (49th). He quit that patronage post a few weeks before a federal grand jury indicted Wigoda in April 1974 in connection with a bribery scheme that landed the alderman in prison.
The young federal prosecutor who put Wigoda away: Dan K. Webb, now a powerhouse attorney leading the case against Vanecko, who is charged in the 2004 death of 21-year-old David Koschman of Mount Prospect.Total Body Fitness Machine - Machines for Whole Body Workouts.Webb was appointed special prosecutor in the Koschman case last April after a series of reports in the Sun-Times cast doubt on the handling of the investigation by police and prosecutors. He is now weighing whether to bring criminal charges against anyone from the Chicago Police Department or Cook County state's attorney's office. Those agencies twice declined to charge Vanecko during the time his uncle was mayor.Henehan, 64, is a disbarred attorney who lost his license for misappropriating money from his clients.He and McIntyre, 65, divorced in 2006, but Henehan has continued to live with the judge in Barrington Hills, the Sun-Times reported last month.