A former Chicago police officer has been charged with multiple felony counts of perjury and forgery, the city’s inspector general’s office said Tuesday afternoon.
Jeffrey Kriv was an officer with the Chicago Police Department from August 5, 1996 until earlier this month, according to the Inspector General’s statement. Kriv faces four counts of perjury and five counts of forgery, according to documents filed in Cook County Circuit Court Tuesday morning.
Both offenses carry a penalty of up to two to five years on probation or in the Illinois Department of Corrections, the inspector general said.
Kriv, 56, appeared in court on Tuesday and was ordered to be released from prison with his approval, according to court records.
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Clive was fired on Jan. 10, but was due to retire on Jan. 20, according to Assistant State Attorney Thomas Friska.
The inspector general said Clive was employed by the CPD at the time of the alleged crime. According to the office’s investigation, from 2009 to 2022, Kriv filed fraudulent documents as evidence and made false statements at administrative hearings, resulting in multiple parking tickets and his personal has successfully contested a travel violation involving a vehicle.
“Police officer integrity and credibility are the foundation of the fair administration of justice and the CPD’s effectiveness as a law enforcement agency,” Inspector General Deborah Wittsburgh said in a statement. “We thank her CPD and the state attorney’s office for their cooperation in this investigation.”
Fryska said the inspector general’s office was first contacted on February 8, 2022 about a potential fraudulent parking ticket related to Kriv.
The inspector general learned that Cliff contested a parking ticket for one of his personal cars on Oct. 13, 2021, Friska said. However, the copy of the ticket, Officer “D. Stuart”, was star-numbered by Clive, and was in fact a ticket Clive had written as his CPD Officer on another day and in another vehicle. .
The Inspector General’s investigation also revealed that since 2013, Kriv has settled 44 automated ticket violations in court. He would testify that his girlfriend had stolen his car and was driving it on the day and time the ticket was issued, he said, Fryska.
Kriv will also provide the administrative law judge with fraudulent police reports to support his claims, Fryska said.
Specifically, from January 2021 to September 2022, Kriv will attend four in-person hearings where he will contest four different automatic traffic violations issued to his personal BMW. said Fryska.
On those days, he filed a forged police report with the judge, claiming the car had been stolen by his girlfriend, Friska said. I kept a copy of the police report and it looked identical except for the date.
According to Fryska, the total cost of the five rejected tickets based on Kriv’s false information was $330. But in retrospect, the total cost of all 44 of his tickets, which were dismissed based on forged documents and false testimony that his girlfriend stole his car, was about $3,665.
Clive’s next trial date is February 23, according to court records.
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Madeline Buckley of the Chicago Tribune contributed.
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