Prosecutors Seeking 15-Month Sentence for Alderman’s Ex-Chief of Staff
Via the Chicago Tribune
When the former chief of staff to Chicago Ald. Howard Brookins took a $7,500 bribe to fix a new liquor license, it was hardly the crime of the century in a city with a cynical political culture that too often asks, “Where’s mine?” federal prosecutors say.
Curtis Thompson Jr. wasn’t the first crooked public official to take a cash-stuffed envelope, and he likely won’t be the last. But in asking a federal judge to sentence Thompson next week to 15 months in prison, prosecutors hope his story will serve as a warning that the public has grown weary of day-to-day corruption.
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