Nearly five years after he was first charged, ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Burke is set to go on trial Monday in a high-stakes corruption case.
Nearly five years after he was first charged, ex-Chicago Ald. Edward Burke is set to go on trial Monday in a high-stakes corruption case that will lay bare the inner workings of one of the city’s last Democratic machine politicians. Burke’s historic trial is the latest in a series of public corruption cases built by prosecutors that have fundamentally altered the Illinois political landscape.
, 73, is charged with one count of attempted extortion, one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, two counts of using interstate commerce to facilitate an unlawful activity, and one count of making a false statement to the FBI. A third defendant, real estate developer Charles Cui, 52, of Lake Forest, is charged with one count of federal program bribery, three counts of using interstate commerce to facilitate an unlawful activity, and one count of making a false statement to the FBI.
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