Dan Webb Interviewed by NBC Chicago on Career Highlights and Current Events

Winston & Strawn Co-Executive Chairman and Litigation Partner Dan Webb was featured on NBC Chicago in a two-part interview, which aired on August 2 and 3, 2017.

In part one of the interview, “Dan Webb Slams Media Coverage of Recent 'Pink Slime' Trial,” Dan discusses the historic win delivered by Winston for client Beef Products Inc. and how national media outlets did a poor job covering court proceedings of the so-called “pink slime” case. “’I don’t think the media wanted to hear about it,’” Dan said. “’The question is did the media protect its own? That’s the question.’” The interview also covers Dan’s illustrious career as a U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Illinois and Special Prosecutor in Washington in the Iran-Contra investigation, as well as his thoughts on Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Part two, titled “Special Prosecutor Says No Political Favoritism in Koschman Case,” revisits the 2004 matter of the death of 21-year-old David Koschman, in which Dan served as Special Prosecutor. Ten years later, he secured an involuntary manslaughter guilty plea. The accused, R.J. Vanecko, was the nephew of Chicago’s then-mayor, Richard M. Daley, which brought up questions of political influence in the investigation. “’We took that investigation wherever it led,’” Dan said. “’There was no evidence that Mayor Daley or anyone else in the mayor’s office tried to influence the result of that case…I put it in my report. I stand by it.”