He is bankrolling a legal team of former federal prosecutors, who have filed hundreds of pages of motions before U.S. District Judge Robert Dow, a rigorous effort that has left
Embattled Ald. Ed Burke has spent more than $2.7 million on legal fees, tapping a deep reservoir of campaign funds built up over decades as he waits trial on federal corruption charges.
An Illinois federal judge has granted more than $7 million in fees and costs to counsel who signed a $27 million securities fraud settlement over TreeHouse Foods Inc.'s $2.7 billion purchase of a Conagra Foods unit, two days after he gave the deal his final blessing.
Nearly a year after he sentenced Edward Vrdolyak to 18 months behind bars for tax evasion, a federal judge has ordered the once-powerful Chicago alderman to.