Andy Shaw Explores Connections Between High Profile Suicides

Andy Shaw Explores Connections Between High Profile Suicides

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Over the past year, four powerful Chicagoans all under investigation for fraud, have committed suicide shortly after investigations. There have been comparisons of Phil Pagano to Christopher Kelly and Orlando Jones’ deaths in September and Michael Scott’s suicide in December. What is it that causes men who are seemingly invisible until there are allegations that they got greedy to take their own lives? Long-time political reporter and current Executive Director of the Better Government Agency, Andy Shaw has a theory.