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Former City Worker Pleads Guilty To Bribery Scheme
CHICAGO (CBS) – A 51-year-old former city employee pleaded guilty on Friday to a shakedown scheme targeting store owners selling cigarettes without paying state taxes. Elias Garza, a former city...
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Cellini Prosecutors Rest Shakedown Case
CHICAGO (AP) – The producer of “Million Dollar Baby” cursed at a clout-heavy businessman about what he believed was a scheme to extort him for a campaign donation, screaming over the phone that he’d...
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Cellini Trial Set To Go To Jury
CHICAGO (AP) – In their final push to take down a well-connected Illinois millionaire, prosecutors focused on one sound Tuesday — a laugh — as they tried to convince jurors he was in on a scheme to...
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Jurors Deliberate At Trial Of ‘King Of Clout’
CHICAGO (AP) – Jurors began sorting Wednesday through three weeks of testimony against a longtime Illinois powerbroker in the last trial related to a nearly decade-long federal investigation of ousted...
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Juror Replaced In Cellini Trial Deliberations
CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge has replaced a juror at the shakedown trial of a clout-heavy Illinois businessman and told the new jury to start deliberations from scratch. The order Thursday came just...
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Power Broker Cellini Guilty On 2 Counts
UPDATED 11/01/11 – 4:38 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — Illinois power broker and millionaire businessman William Cellini has been found guilty on two of four counts related to a conspiracy to squeeze the...
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Blagojevich Pal Lon Monk Sentenced To Two Years In Prison
Updated 04/03/12 – 2:55 p.m. CHICAGO (CBS) — A longtime friend and former aide to Rod Blagojevich has been sentenced to two years in prison for his role in the corruption scandal that took down the...
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Convicted Powerbroker William Cellini Suffers Heart Attack
CHICAGO (AP) – William Cellini, the long-time Illinois powerbroker convicted of conspiring to shake down a Hollywood producer, has suffered a heart attack. A family spokesman says Cellini was released...
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Cellini Sentencing Hearing Delayed Again
CHICAGO (AP) – A federal judge agreed to delay the sentencing of a onetime Springfield powerbroker with ties to former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for a second time Wednesday because of health...
View ArticleFugitive Cop Eddie Hicks Caught 14 Years After Skipping Corruption Trial
CHICAGO (CBS) — Eddie C. Hicks has been due in court ever since June 9, 2003. That’s when the feds planned to put the former Chicago police sergeant on trial for allegedly leading a rip-off crew in the...
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