"Greed prompted fatal Ill. blaze, state says" by Associated Press | March 6, 2010
MAYWOOD, Ill. - The owner of a suburban Chicago apartment house had his maintenance man set fire to the building, killing seven people including a newborn, because he wanted to cash in on a $250,000 insurance policy, prosecutors said yesterday.
The landlord told police he wanted the house burned when the children living there were at school. Instead, authorities allege, the maintenance man started the fire on a Sunday morning when residents were sleeping inside.
“The sheer greed alone is difficult enough to understand, but the inhumanity of this crime is almost beyond comprehension,’’ said Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez....
Alvarez said the charges were based on secret recordings that caught the two accused men discussing how maintenance man Marion Comier, 47, had set the fire at the Cicero house and arguing over how much he would be paid.
The recordings were made after three witnesses told police they had overheard landlord, Lawrence Myers, 60, and Comier talking about setting the blaze, prosecutors said. Authorities then got a court order allowing the electronic listening device to be worn by an unidentified informant....
These are the kinds of things government should be doing, not setting up false flag patsies and terror plots.
