Considering Chicago's corrupt history, it’s confounding to see lawyers claiming ex-Ald. Ed Burke's alleged illegal deeds are “just politics.'
It serves as a fitting metaphor that, in an effort to avoid tainting the jury in the trial of disgraced former Ald. Edward Burke , a rogues’ gallery of corrupt Illinois politicians hanging in the courtroom will be hidden from view. The fact that the images will be hidden behind brown paper is a decorating touch that has a certain symmetry to it.
The guilty group included Anne Pramaggiore, ComEd’s CEO and a fixture in civic life, who had billions at stake and no legal guardrails, apparently, when it came to fixing the outcomes of matters before the Madigan-controlled legislature; John Hooker, a ComEd lobbyist, who greased the workings of power, politics and pay-as-you-go government in Springfield, and Jay Doherty, whose lobbying firm established itself as a source for no-show jobs.
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