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(The Center Square) – A federal judge sentenced a former Illinois state senator to a year and a day in prison Tuesday after the lawmaker pleaded guilty to fraudulently taking salary and benefits from a labor union. Form...
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday sentenced former Illinois state Sen. Tom Cullerton to a year in prison for embezzlement, after the ex-lawmaker admitted earlier this year that he received a salary, a car and benefits from a Teamsters division while performing little to no work.
Look for the union label... and go directly to jail
Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton was sentenced to one year in federal prison for embezzlement from a no-work union job. He sponsored the Amendment 1 proposal to make government unions nearly untouchable in Illinois.
O’Donnell’s case is among the most high-profile to result from the rioting and looting that took place here in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Its notoriety is due in large part to the jarring images of a man in a clown mask amid the chaos that day.