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Testimony in former Ald. Edward Burke’s corruption trial is expected to focus Friday on allegedly misleading statements Burke’s longtime ward aide gave to federal investigators when they confronted him at his South Side home five years ago. Burke, the longtime head of the Finance Committee who left City Council in May, is charged with conspiring with his aide, Peter Andrews Jr., to shut down ...
CHICAGO — Former Alderman Daniel Solis, whose unprecedented turn as an FBI mole helped the feds take down two princes of Chicago’s Democratic political machine, is expected to be called as a defense witness next week in the corruption trial of his former colleague, ex-Alderman Ed Burke. The undercover recordings made by Solis have been the centerpiece of Burke’s ongoing trial, but Solis ...
Five years after federal agents raided then-Ald. Ed Burke’s City Hall office, jurors at his corruption trial last week got to hear what’s fast becoming known simply as the “tuna” call. In one of the trial’s most highly anticipated moments, federal prosecutors played the secret recording of Burke allegedly asking then-colleague, Ald. Daniel Solis, if the developers of the massive Old Post ...
Lawyers for former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke have filed a formal motion for a mistrial in his high-profile corruption case, arguing a witness’ off-the-cuff remark that Burke’s actions seemed “corrupt” has tainted the jury and violated Burke’s due process rights. The motion by attorneys Joseph Duffy and Chris Gair filed shortly before 7 a.m. is expected to be discussed in court before the trial ...
Jurors in ex-Ald. Ed Burke’s federal corruption trial on Thursday finally heard, in Burke’s own voice, a phrase already infamous in Chicago political history: “So did we land the, uh, the tuna?” The “tuna” was tax business from developers of the massive Old Post Office – business that Burke had been chasing for months. In conversation after wiretapped conversation, Burke made it clear to FBI ...