Drew Peterson was charged Monday with trying to hire a hit-man to kill Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow.
Glasgow was the lead prosecutor during Peterson’s murder trial in 2012 where Peterson was convicted of killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who drowned in a bathtub, WGN-TV reports.
In February 2013, Peterson received a 38-year prison sentence for the murder of Savio.
At an arraignment Monday morning, Peterson, 61, was charged with one count of solicitation murder for hire and one count of solicitation for murder, an attorney general’s office news release said. His next court date is scheduled for March 3.
The release says that the retired police officer arranged the hit on Glasgow sometime between September 2013 and December 2014.
Peterson’s attorney, Steve Greenberg, said that he had not been informed of the charges and neither had Peterson’s family, The Chicago Tribune notes. Greenberg went on to call the idea of Peterson putting a hit on Glasgow for having him prosecuted “absurd.”
Peterson’s former attorney, Joel Brodsky, told WGN that he wasn’t surprised about the allegations and that if he thought Peterson had intent to harm someone, he would have “have a duty to disclose that.”
“Not really. When I was representing Drew we did a lot of things that were controversial, but apparently his new lawyers don’t have control over their client, and that’s unfortunate,” Brodsky said.