Koschman cop gets $37K in OT while fighting suspension

The last Chicago cop facing disciplinary action in the David Koschman case has been paid more than $37,000 for overtime while assigned to desk duty as he fights City Hall's efforts to suspend him for a year.

That's despite Sgt. Sam Cirone's key role in one of his department's biggest scandals, in which a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley escaped being charged for a decade in Koschman's death.

Altogether, Cirone, 49, has been paid more than $225,000 in wages, overtime pay and other compensation since being put on administrative duty in February 2016 pending disciplinary action, records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.

In addition to his regular pay, he got $27,941 in "generic overtime," $20,767 for 400 hours of compensatory time he had accumulated, $9,301 in supervisor's overtime, $8,306 for vacation and personal days he cashed in, $5,235 for "duty availability" pay and $2,400 for his uniform allowance.

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