After my appearance on Chicago’s Morning Answer on Friday, Usha Karri, Venkatesh Bhogireddy’s ex-wife, forwarded me an email she sent to Kim Foxx in 2019.
Foxx, the Cook County State’s Attorney, is facing allegations that she is the perpetrator of domestic violence. As Dan Proft noted, she is also appears to be above the law since a crime was acknowledged but she wasn’t arrested.
In Venkatesh Bhogireddy’s case, he was the subject of four police reports in 2018 brought by Usha, with alleged crimes including rape, theft, domestic violence, and violation of a protective order.
He faced only one charge: for violating the protective order in September 2018. He was released the following day and the charges were quietly dropped in April 2019.
In May 2019, he was arrested and charged with trying to hire a hit-man to kill his ex-wife’s uncle. He was convicted on those charges in 2021 and remains in federal prison today awaiting sentencing.
I reached out to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office (CCSAO) and to Venaketesh’s attorney, Michael Clancy, representing him on his protective order violation.
The CCSAO did not respond back while Clancy maintained, as he previously had, that while he doesn’t remember the details of the case he doesn’t believe anything unusual happened.
“I wish I remembered but I don’t and don’t believe it was unusual in any way.” Clancy wrote in an email on June 17, 2022.
Clancy began representing him shortly after he was charged and continued through April 2019.
Usha also wrote me after the broadcast and provided an email she wrote to Foxx in 2019.
(Check out my exclusive interview with Usha and her uncle here)
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