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February 7, 2022
Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, the grandson and nephew of the city’s two longest-serving mayors, is poised Monday to become the first member of his family’s political dynasty to face a jury in a criminal trial.
February 4, 2022
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson’s tax fraud case opens Monday. He’ll be the first from Chicago’s Daley political family to face trial and the first sitting Chicago City Council member on trial in more than two decades.
February 4, 2022
A pool of prospective jurors is scheduled to report Friday morning to take COVID-19 tests and fill out a questionnaire for the trial of Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, grandson and nephew of the city’s two longest-serving mayors,
January 27, 2022
William Kowalski confessed to his role in an embezzling scheme, which included a $190,000 loan to buy a boat with a Harry Potter-inspired name
January 27, 2022
Cathy Torres’ name appears on a list of potential prosecution witnesses for Thompson’s federal tax trial, which is set for Feb. 4. The feds say Torres communicated with Thompson about his loan at Washington Federal and attempts to refinance there.
January 24, 2022
William A. Kowalski struck a two-year deal with federal prosecutors known as a deferred-prosecution agreement in the case involving a Bridgeport bank. If he holds up his end of the bargain, prosecutors are expected to dismiss the charges.
January 15, 2022
U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama made the ruling during a pretrial conference Friday, where it appeared Thompson’s trial was on track to begin Feb. 4.
January 15, 2022
The Sun-Times coverage of the Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Bridgeport, and the federal investigation into "massive fraud" at the now-shuttered bank.
January 14, 2022
After agreeing Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson's trial should proceed as planned next month, a judge ruled the alderman can present evidence he took steps to amend the tax returns at the center of the charges against him.
January 13, 2022
A former loan officer for a failed Bridgeport bank admitted in federal court Wednesday that she falsified loan records for Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson at the direction of the bank’s president.