Gang member loses $6M of legal windfall to shooting victim [View all]

Thaddeus “T.J.” Jimenez — who became a multimillionaire four years ago in a wrongful-conviction lawsuit against the Chicago Police Department — just lost about $6 million of that fortune for shooting a man.

In 2012, a jury awarded Jimenez $25 million in the lawsuit he filed against the police.

Since then, though, he has spent his money on Lamborginis and other fancy cars; real estate; and on men whom he recruited into his gang, the Simon City Royals. He paid them to tattoo the gang logo on their faces in return for thousands of dollars each, police say. Earlier this year, he told a federal judge he’s now practically broke.

On Friday, Jimenez’s legal windfall took a huge hit when a Cook County judge awarded $6.3 million to a man whom authorities say Jimenez shot and wounded about a year ago.

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