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The historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has ended with a guilty verdict. The son of a Democratic ward boss and alderman, Burke, 79, served more than 50 years on the City Council and allegedly ran the Finance Committee like his own personal fiefdom before his office was dramatically raided by the FBI in November 2018. Burke is charged with 14 counts, including ...
The historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has been delayed at least a week after one of the defense lawyers tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, the judge said Thursday, delaying proceedings which already featured slower than expected jury selection. Opening statements had been expected to begin as soon as Thursday afternoon in the case against Burke, the former City ...
The historic corruption trial of former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke has been delayed at least a week after one of the defense lawyers tested positive for COVID-19 overnight, the judge said Thursday, delaying proceedings which already featured slower than expected jury selection. Opening statements had been expected to begin as soon as Thursday afternoon in the case against Burke, the former City ...
The landmark corruption trial of former Ald. Edward Burke has stretched into its third day of jury selection, a process that U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall said would not be complete until Thursday “unless something magical happens.” As of Wednesday afternoon, a total of 45 people had been questioned. At last count Tuesday evening, just 26 had made it through “for cause” strikes to the ...
CHICAGO — Nearly five years after he was first charged, ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Burke went on trial Monday in a high-stakes corruption case that will lay bare the inner workings of one of the city’s last Democratic machine politicians. Burke’s historic trial is the latest in a series of public corruption cases built by prosecutors that have fundamentally altered the Illinois political ...