Ambrosio Medrano, a former Chicago alderman convicted nearly two decades ago of public corruption, was searching for a financial opportunity for his wife of 35 years so the two could retire and spend time with their grandchildren, his attorney told a jury today at Medrano’s federal bribery trial. So when an acquaintance said he had a millionaire medical sales rep…
January 1, 2013 – Associated Press CHICAGO — The lanky, soft-spoken lawman from New York arrived in Chicago with a mandate to clean up corruption-plagued Illinois. And after a decade on the job, Patrick Fitzgerald had helped put two successive governors and a long procession of other public officials behind bars. Months after the consummate outsider resigned as head of…
When Kerin Ramirez goes to trial for invading an off-duty police officer’s home, a DuPage County jury will learn the former Harper College wrestler was drunk when he entered the house and was shot during the confrontation that followed. Prosecutors had asked DuPage Judge George Bakalis to bar the defense from mentioning either detail during the trial. But Bakalis on…
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CHICAGO — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered a lower court to again look at former Illinois Gov. George Ryan’s bid to overturn his corruption convictions, offering the imprisoned Republican a chance, however slim, at a new trial. The decision marks one of the few significant rulings that have gone in Ryan’s favor since he was convicted of accepting…
Rod Blagojevich’s attorneys have asked to have him placed in a drug rehab program when he starts his 14-year prison sentence for corruption, though they aren’t saying if the former Illinois governor has a problem or if it’s a legal move. Judge James Zagel agreed Tuesday to recommend Blagojevich for the program. Neither Zagel nor Blagojevich’s attorneys detailed why he…
http://m.yahoo.com/news?_ybx=hero&ref_w=frontdoors#/stories/article?id=ap/us_blagojevich_sentencing&cat=top-stories AP – 12/8/2011 – Rod Blagojevich starts his Thursday facing a bleak countdown — 71 days before the twice-elected Illinois governor must say goodbye to his family and begin serving a 14-year sentence for corruption. During those days, he will scramble to get his financial affairs in order and spend a final birthday and Christmas at home with his…
By: MICHAEL TARM Illinois State Wire (5/24/2011) CHICAGO (AP) – A source familiar with plans for Rod Blagojevich’s defense says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. will be called to testify Wednesday when attorneys begin mounting a defense in the former governor’s retrial on corruption charges. The source spoke on condition of anonymity because the person…
By MICHAEL TARM (AP) – A defense team of more than a dozen attorneys and legal aides, who huddled around former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich talking strategy or even comforting their client during his first corruption trial, won’t be there for his second. The official number of attorneys for the retrial is – two. The fact that a Blagojevich legal…
