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Portraying himself as an adoring father, the 53-year-old Oswego man was mostly met with befuddled looks from the four-member panel.
In 2007, Mazur arranged for cocaine, marijuana and a .22-caliber handgun to be planted in the trunk of his estranged wife’s car — in a failed attempt to get her deported to her native Poland. Seven years later, Mazur finds himself facing a similar fate — deportation — if he can’t persuade Gov. Pat Quinn to show mercy.
In a 15-page letter to the governor, Mazur says he is petrified at the thought of being separated from the two children he shares with the mother he once framed.
“I will not raise a toast at neither of their weddings,” Mazur wrote. “I will never see my grandchildren being born. I will never baby-sit my grandchildren either. I will never meet my children’s in-laws, share a Christmas wafer during the Christmas Eve supper. These thoughts paralyze me. They terrify me to death.”
During Tuesday’s clemency hearing, Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney Frank Marek noted the obvious — it’s “ironic,” he said, that a man who tried to have his wife deported is now in the same boat. Marek’s office opposes Mazur’s clemency.
In early 2007, Mazur faced a “moral dilemma,” he says, when his wife wanted out of their marriage and full custody of their two children.
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