The two-year prison sentence and $2 million fine delivered to the longest-serving Chicago alderman ever is already reverberating around the City Council he long lorded over.
The day authorities raided Ald. Ed Burke’s office five years ago,The building was quiet Monday with no meetings scheduled. But despite the stillness, the two-year prison sentence and $2 million fine delivered to the longest-serving Chicago alderman ever was already reverberating around the City Council he long lorded over.
But after a six-week trial, a four-day jury deliberation and a final five-hour hearing Monday, Burke’s clout came to a resounding end as he was sentenced on racketeering conspiracy, bribery and attempted extortion in a series of schemes to use his office to try to win business from developers for his private property tax law firm.
“He is a friend. I’m loyal to the death. I stand behind my friends, and I was hoping it would not be more than a year or so,” Sposato said. “He did a lot of good things. He did a really terrible thing at the end there. Still hard for me to comprehend, and he is paying a price.” But that lesson, he added, is one Chicago aldermen surely should have already grasped. You always think this will be the last time, Sposato said.
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