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That averages out to one council member convicted every 16 months. Burke is the first since former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson less than two years ago.
Former Chicago Ald. Edward Burke was convicted by a federal jury Thursday of racketeering conspiracy and a dozen other counts for using the clout of his elected office to win private law business from developers. The nearly clean sweep of guilty verdicts capped a stunning fall for Burke, the former head of the city Finance Committee and Democratic political machine master who served a record ...
Seven weeks ago, officials at Chicago’s federal courthouse used brown butcher paper to cover up large hallway displays highlighting infamous political corruption cases, featuring names like Walker, Ryan, Blagojevich and Vrdolyak. On Thursday, a federal jury added another name to that inglorious roster: Edward M. Burke. In a verdict that will reverberate through city politics, Burke was ...
When a politician disappears, the police usually have some good ideas about where to look for him or his bullet-ridden body. They ask bartenders if he has been showing up with a woman who isn’t his wife, or with another guy’s girlfriend. Was he in hock to a shady character for services rendered? Had he thwarted a rival’s hopes for elective office? But in Sal P. Pullia’s case the cast of ...
Rudy Acosta III, a onetime gangster rap impresario and real estate mogul known for the castle-like home he built along the Kennedy Expressway, was sentenced to one year in prison Tuesday for trafficking hundreds of kilograms of cocaine before flipping and helping prosecutors build cases against his suppliers. The sentencing before U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman wrapped up an ...