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Final Tally: Ex-Ald Ed Burke Spent $3 8M in Campaign Cash on Legal Fees Before Conviction

Final Tally: Ex-Ald Ed Burke Spent $3 8M in Campaign Cash on Legal Fees Before Conviction
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Ex-Ald Ed Burke campaign funds paid consulting fees to co-defendant

Ex-Ald Ed Burke campaign funds paid consulting fees to co-defendant
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Ex-Ald Ed Burke used campaign funds to pay six-figure consulting fees to his co-defendant

Former Ald. Edward Burke, whose federal racketeering trial begins next week, has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars in “consulting” fees in recent years from campaign funds he controls to one of his co-defendants, campaign records show. Lawyers for Peter Andrews Jr., a key player for years in the ex-alderman’s 14th Ward Democratic organization, said money from Burke’s political funds was .

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Jennifer Del Prete is free after retrial in Will County is dismissed

The former day care worker had been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2003 death of 14-month-old Isabella Zielinski. Her criminal case was dismissed Wednesday after the state was no longer able to make a case against her with a new expert opinion, according to a court order.

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Politicians Can Use Campaign Cash to Defend Themselves from Corruption Probes, Illinois Supreme Court Rules

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th Ward) had urged the Illinois Supreme Court to overturn decisions by the Illinois State Board of Elections as well as lower courts that allowed politicians accused of political corruption to use funds contributed by supporters of their campaigns to defend themselves from accusations of wrongdoing while in office.

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