This Edmund Kavanaugh character seems like quite a lowlife.
Kavanaugh, who owned Goliath Construction in Elmhurst, was ripping people off not just here in Will County, but in Cook and DuPage as well.
He was stuck in the county jail about 18 months while he waited on his case and now he’s in Stateville, where it looks like he’ll spend the next couple years.
Kavanaugh is certainly a bad apple. So bad, in fact, that when he pleaded guilty last month, Will County State’s Attorney Jim Glasgow was moved to call him a “textbook scam artist” and to proclaim, “It is about time that this con artist who has swindled victims throughout the Chicagoland area has received what he so richly deserves – time in prison.”
Those were strong words, but not unexpected when Glasgow’s office sends someone to prison. Like the time he called both attempted murderer Devon Herron and Candido Cordero, who sexually assaulted a child, “demonic.” Or when he went on about the “rank cowardice” of Arties Titus, who slashed a former girlfriend and her new man, or the run-of-the-mill “cowardice” of rapist Michael Enoh.
Yes, Glasgow bravely called those two men cowards while they were locked away and headed to prison.
That was some tough talk from Glasgow. Only it really wasn’t talk. The quotes were from press releases sent out by his office.
Who knows if Glasgow ever really said any of those things? At this point, Glasgow might as well be the Wizard of…
