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Feds File New Charges in Botched Country Club Hills Sting After Initial Case Collapsed
Prosecutors say Edwards was misidentified in an earlier complaint after bystander video contradicted agents’ account and led to new charges against Gordon.
New charges have been filed over the June 9 attempted robbery of undercover federal officers in Country Club Hills, nearly two months after the case originally brought by prosecutors fell apart over video of a police shooting that seemed to contradict an FBI special agent’s sworn affidavit. It’s one of a series of cases that prompted judges to question the feds’ credibility in Chicago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Keri Holleb Hotaling, who handled the …