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Federal prosecutors are inching closer to wrapping up their case in the corruption trial of ex-Ald. Ed Burke as testimony late this week is expected to shift back to an alleged extortion scheme involving a liquor store pole sign in Portage Park. Testifying for a second day will be Judy Frydland, the former Buildings Department commissioner whose office touches three of the four main episodes ...

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 ...

COVID-19 is arguably one of the reasons it took so long for the feds to take former Ald. Ed Burke to trial in the first place. The FBI raided his offices five years ago this week. Criminal charges followed in 2019, but the pandemic helped scuttle plans to begin the trial in 2021.

Former Ald. Edward Burke, whose federal racketeering trial begins next week, has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in “consulting” fees in recent years from campaign funds he controls to one of his co-defendants, campaign records show. Lawyers for Peter Andrews Jr., a key player for years in the ex-alderman’s 14th Ward Democratic organization, said money from Burke’s political funds was ...

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