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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.
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson (11th) is the first former or sitting Chicago alderperson to be convicted since former Ald. Ricardo Muñoz (22nd) pleaded guilty last September and the 37th since Fred Hubbard (2nd) in 1973. It averages out to a Council member convicted every 16 months.
Chicago has seen scores of politicians go down for federal crimes over the years, but the last time a sitting alderman was waiting on a jury verdict at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse was literally another millennium.
Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson is a sophisticated lawyer who decided to lie to federal regulators about a line of credit he had with a failed Bridgeport bank to get
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson is a sophisticated lawyer who decided to lie to federal regulators about a line of credit he had with a failed Bridgeport ban to get out of paying back the full amount of his debt, a federal prosecutor said Monday.