While Illinois’ new SAFE-T Act provisions have already kicked in, allowing criminal-charge inmates on electronic monitoring two days of unmonitored movement, Fanady was denied this because he…
Yet there has been no attempt to reform Illinois’ civil detention system — which some have called a “debtor’s prison.”
According to his parents, Steve Fanady has been sleeping in an isolated cell infested with rats and roaches, hasn’t showered in 26 weeks, and has been denied basic medical and mental health care. But lawyers for Harnack say Fanady deserves what he gets, that he attempted to hide marital assets in Switzerland, and that he actively evaded law enforcement for over a year to avoid incarceration.
On Friday, Jan. 5, a Cook County judge will rule on Fanady’s claim that it is impossible for him to pay his ex-wife. Fanady says it is a life-or-death decision.Fanady, who was born in the US and has dual citizenship in Greece, said the idea that he was hiding money was ridiculous. “If private investigators can find a Russian oligarch’s yacht docked on some remote Pacific island, how can I hide anything?” he said.
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx in her first three years in office, yet there has been no attempt to reform Illinois’ civil detention system.Fanady found a nonprofit lawyer to file a federal lawsuit against Cook County Sheriff Dart over the rat and vermin-infested conditions he said he is kept in at the Cook County Jail — but so far — no action has been taken by the judge.
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