By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
Two convicted bank robbers used a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution.
She said there was no indication anything was amiss when she arrived at work at 7 a.m.
After U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer convicted him, he said he would "be seeking retribution as well as damages," the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune reported.
