Editor’s note: The video in the player above is from a previous report. Former Chicago Ald. Ed Burke will be sentenced on Monday for illegally wielding…
Federal prosecutors, in a 51-page court filing, pushed for a 10-year prison sentence, which would amount to one of the harshest public corruption sentences handed down in the city’s federal court in the last decade.for illegally wielding his considerable clout tBurke's sentencing will take place just three days after a federal judge denied a last-ditch effort to postpone the hearing until after the U.S. Supreme Court rules in a separate bribery case, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Federal prosecutors, in a 51-page court filing, pushed for a 10-year prison sentence, 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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