The sentencing comes roughly a week after the feds unveiled details of a recorded conversation that allegedly tied Weiss to the late Chicago mobster Frank “The German” Schweihs.
The feds revealed the details of that conversation as they sought a prison sentence of more than five years for James Weiss, who was convicted earlier this year of bribing two Illinois lawmakers.
The now-convicted son-in-law of former Cook County Democratic boss Joseph Berrios was allegedly “good friends” with notorious mob hitman Frank “The German” Schweihs and once went to him for protection for his massage parlors being threatened by other gangsters. That’s the story about James Weiss that was caught on a federal wiretap and revealed in a court filing late Wednesday, where .
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