Ed Burke, 80, is the longest City Council member in Chicago history with a 54-year tenure. Prosecutors for are seeking 10 years in prison after Burke was found…
Burke, 80, is the longest City Council member in Chicago history with a 54-year tenure. Prosecutors for are seeking 10 years in prison, from illegally using his power to win private law business from developers to threatening one of Chicago’s cultural icons for his own benefit.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall said she agreed with prosecutors that the high court’s decision in Snyder's case “will have little or no impact” on the sentence that Burke receives, the Tribune reported., which would amount to one of the harshest public corruption sentences handed down in the city’s federal court in the last decade. Burke is 80 years old.
Meanwhile, Burke’s lawyers are asking a judge to give him no prison time, which they say would “be a powerful and just expression of mercy for an 80-year-old man in the twilight of his life who has given so much of himself to so many and for so many years.”
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