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Prosecutors asked the judge to give Cullerton up to 18 months in prison. The former senator’s defense attorney asked for probation and community service.
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Ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton could face a prison sentence for pocketing more than a quarter of a million dollars in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work.
Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months and one day in federal prison on his conviction for embezzling close to a quarter of a million dollars from the Teamsters union. "You broke the trust of the people who elected you," U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman told him.
A federal judge has sentenced former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton to a year in prison in the $248,000 embezzlement case involving the Teamsters labor union that...
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday asked for up to 18 months for prison for ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton, revealing that another state senator helped Cullerton land a do-nothing job.