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伊利诺伊州北区联邦首席检察官周三表示，在芝加哥联邦检察官因大陪审团滥用职权和检察官不当行为，被迫撤销“布罗德韦尔六人组”案件的指控后，已有超过1000起大陪审团起诉书正在接受审查。
美国伊利诺伊州北区检察官安德鲁·布特罗斯在华盛顿特区一场无关的新闻发布会上对媒体表示，作为提振大陪审团程序公信力努力的一部分，他的办公室正在审查最早可追溯至2007年的案件中的检察官行为。
“当所有工作都完成后，我可以告诉大家，伊利诺伊州北区将有远超1000起大陪审团起诉书接受审查，”布特罗斯说道。
“审查将具有追溯性，涵盖部分案件中近20年前发生的情况，同时也将覆盖目前法院 pending 的所有正在进行的案件。”
他表示，对当前案件的审查旨在提振公众对司法系统的信心，并确保这些案件不会出现与“布罗德韦尔六人组”案相同的问题。该案涉及去年秋季在伊利诺伊州布罗德韦尔市美国移民海关执法局设施外被捕的一群抗议者。
近几个月来，检察官不当行为的曝光让布特罗斯面临越来越多的审查。
在美国地区法官阿普丽尔·佩里罕见地公开了通常保密的大陪审团笔录后，该案宣告失败。笔录显示，检察官在获取对抗议者的起诉书时存在不当行为。
安德鲁·布特罗斯，伊利诺伊州北区美国检察官，2026年7月1日在华盛顿特区司法部的一场新闻发布会上。内森·波斯纳/阿纳多卢通讯社 盖蒂图片社
这起丑闻的核心人物是前美国助理检察官谢里·梅克伦堡，她离职后前往伊利诺伊州民主党参议员迪克·德宾的办公室任职。大陪审团笔录显示，她不当“担保”针对被告的证据力度，驳回了对指控持不同意见的大陪审员，并在正式程序之外不当联系了一名大陪审员。
德宾随后已将她从岗位上解雇。
布特罗斯针对这些曝光事件宣布实施了一项整改计划。该计划的一部分内容是新增改革举措，布特罗斯表示这些改革为检察官何时需要移交大陪审团材料以及在何种情形下移交划定了“清晰明确的界限”。
他表示，该计划的第二部分内容是对过往案件开展全面审查，包括梅克伦堡以及该办公室其他检察官经办的案件。
“这将是一次大规模、全方位的审查，目前已经启动。”
Top federal prosecutor in Chicago says more than 1,000 cases under review after Broadview Six misconduct revelations
July 1, 2026 1:57 PM EDT / CBS News
By Sarah N. Lynch
Sarah N. Lynch Senior Justice Department Reporter
Sarah N. Lynch is the senior Justice Department reporter for CBS News, based in Washington, D.C.
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More than 1,000 grand jury presentations are under review after federal prosecutors in Chicago were forced to dismiss charges in the “Broadview Six” case due to grand jury abuses and prosecutorial misconduct, the top federal prosecutor in the district said Wednesday.
Speaking to the media in Washington, D.C., at an unrelated press conference, U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros for the Northern District of Illinois said his office is scrutinizing prosecutorial conduct in cases that date back as far as 2007, as part of an effort to shore up confidence in the grand jury process.
“When this is all said and done, I will tell you that well over 1,000 grand jury presentations will be reviewed in the Northern District of Illinois,” Boutros said.
“They will both be retroactive, looking at what happened in some cases going all the way back almost 20 years. It will cover everything that is happening now that’s pending in court.”
He said the review of current cases is designed to instill confidence in the system and ensure those cases are not suffering from the same issues as seen with the Broadview Six — a case involving a group of protesters who were arrested outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, last fall.
Boutros has faced mounting scrutiny after revelations of prosecutorial misconduct came to light in recent months.
The case fell apart after U.S. District Judge April Perry took the rare step of unsealing usually secret grand jury transcripts which revealed prosecutors had engaged in inappropriate conduct when securing the indictment against the protesters.
Andrew Boutros, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, at a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C., on July 1, 2026. Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images
At the center of the scandal is former Assistant U.S. Attorney Sheri Mecklenburg, who left to take a job working for Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. The grand jury transcripts showed that she improperly “vouched” for the strength of the evidence against the defendants, dismissed grand jurors who disagreed with the allegations, and improperly contacted one grand juror outside of official proceedings.
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Durbin has since fired her from her post.
Boutros, in response to the revelations, announced he has instituted a remediation plan. Part of that plan entails new reforms that Boutros said create “very bright lines” about when prosecutors need to turn over grand jury material and under what circumstances.
The second part of the plan entails the extensive review of prior cases, including those handled by Mecklenburg as well as by other prosecutors in the office, he said.
“It’s going to be a massive review, a comprehensive review, and it is underway.”
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