Former Chicago cop accused of plotting murder of witness from behind bars

Former Chicago cop and onetime Death Row resident Mandell, 61, is awaiting trial for a pair of grisly murder plots, including one in which he and an accomplice allegedly planned to abduct, torture, extort, murder and dismember an unidentified businessman in a purpose-built killing chamber.

Held in isolation at the MCC after he allegedly tried to get his wife to clear up evidence against him following his Oct. 25 arrest, he was recently released back into the jail’s general population on a judge’s orders after he complained that the isolation was affecting his health.

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Amar Bhachu told Judge Amy St. Eve on Thursday that Mandell has been placed back in the jail’s Segregated Housing Unit after he used his time in the general population “soliciting the murder of a federal witness.”

A furious Mandell — wearing shackles and an orange jail jump suit — angrily denied the allegation.

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