New indictment expands bribery case against once high-ranking Cook County official
Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Federal prosecutors made good Thursday on their promise to file additional charges against Patrick Doherty, accusing the once high-ranking Cook County official of schemes involving former county Commissioner Jeff Tobolski and the late state Sen. Martin Sandoval. They originally hit Doherty in February 2020 with three bribery charges in a seven-page indictment that revolved not around Doherty’s work for the county but as a paid consultant for the politically connected red-light camera company SafeSpeed LLC. That indictment accused him of conspiring to pay off ...