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The two top staff members of Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson’s administration are a pragmatic City Hall veteran and a progressive-minded state legislator, a dynamic they say will be a strength in executing their boss’s bold agenda.
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Richard Guidice rose through the ranks at the Office of Emergency Management before rising to the agency’s top position four years ago.
Criminal history in Cook County is long and sordid — from Al Capone to Leopold and Loeb to John Wayne Gacy. The historical figures may be long gone, but the physical documents and evidence pertaining to their cases are still around.
The employees were found to have defrauded the Paycheck Protection Program designed to help businesses stay afloat amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The prosecution’s best testimony has come from the defendants’ own mouths, captured in the dozens of wiretapped phone calls and secretly recorded videos.