Update | 3:49 p.m. Robyn Ziegler, spokeswoman for Attorney General Lisa Madigan, said the attorney general’s office doesn’t have primary jurisdiction over criminal investigations and prosecution: That’s left to the Cook County state’s attorney.
Randall Samborn, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, declined to comment.
Original post: County reporter Alex Parker called me with the following update just minutes ago:
At today's Cook County board meeting, Commissioner Robert Steele raised some doubts over the investigation into former Chicago Public Schools Chairman Michael Scott's death, echoing worries from Scott's family earlier this morning.
"There are so many questions the family has about this," Steele said. They are displeased about "how this is happening and how the medical examiner solved it so quickly."
Scott's family held a press conference at 11 a.m., at the Holy Starlight Church in Chicago's South Side. The family called for a full inquiry into Scott's death by the U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald, and the state's attorney general, Lisa Madigan.
An initial investigation found that he shot himself in the temple, then fell into the river. But Scott's upbeat attitude and lack of a suicide note has left doubts about whether he killed himself.
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