Federal prosecutors sought to undermine the notion that Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson had forgotten about $109,000 he received from a Bridgeport bank or that he.
The jury heard roughly three-and-a-half days of testimony in Thompson’s trial last week, mostly from government witnesses. The trial began nine months after the feds hit Thompson with an indictment charging him with two counts of lying to regulators and five counts of filing false federal income-tax returns.
A jury has found Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson guilty on charges that he lied to federal regulators and that he filed false federal income tax returns in.
After Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson was found guilty of lying to federal regulators and cheating on his tax returns for five years, Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Chicago has seen scores of politicians go down for federal crimes over the years, but the last time a sitting alderman was waiting on a jury verdict at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse was literally another millennium.