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UpdatedThu, May 13, 2021 at 3:52 pm CT Reply David J. Cottrell Jr., 31, sentenced Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison, has been held in federal custody at the Metropolitan Corrections Center in Chicago since 2018. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) CHICAGO — A judge on Tuesday sentenced a Park Ridge native who admitted blackmailing girls over the internet to produce videos and images of child sexual exploitation to 27 years in federal prison. David J. Cottrell Jr., 31, who most recently lived with his mother in Niles, pleaded guilty last year and has been awaiting sentencing ever since. His sente...

Niles man gets 27-year sentence for extorting porn from teen girl By AP NEWS CHICAGO - A 27-year prison sentence was handed down Tuesday to a former New York University law student who pleaded guilty to extorting child pornography from a teenage girl by threatening to humiliate and shame her online. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman acceded to federal prosecutors’ requests that David J. Cottrell, 31, receive a lengthy sentence. Cottrell’s attorneys asked for a 15-year sentence, insisting their client needs treatment for pedophilia, depression, substance abuse and other mental health is...

Sun-Times Media A federal judge handed a nearly three-decade prison sentence Tuesday to a onetime New York University law school student raised in Park Ridge who spent years extorting child pornography from a teenage girl by threatening to humiliate and shame her online. The girl’s father has said his “knees buckled” when he learned his “daughter was being tortured and blackmailed and controlled inside her own home” by David J. Cottrell. U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman sentenced Cottrell Tuesday to 27 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office. In doing ...

The governor’s office unveiled a 900-page energy overhaul bill Wednesday, accelerating a yearslong process which advocates hope will end in a comprehensive clean energy platform as the session nears its final month. The stated goal of the bill is to drive Illinois to 100 percent “clean” energy by 2050. That, Deputy Gov. Christian Mitchell said in an interview Wednesday, would include nuclear power as a major contributor. Another goal is to bring Illinois to 40 percent of its utility scale energy produced by renewables, such as wind and solar, by 2030. Right now, that number is around 8 ...

Donnie - No, he hasn’t. With a cooperator, the USAO will ask the judge to hold off on sentencing until the targets of the witness’ cooperation have either pled or been found guilty. This allows the cooperator to better withstand cross examination. The Government is violating Senator Cullerton’s rights under the 6th ammendment. Two and a half years is not a speedy trial. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have bee...