Mario Giannini, who worked for Bulldog Earth Movers, was found guilty after a trial featuring testimony of the township’s disgraced former commissioner, Robert Czernek.
A jury on Monday convicted Mario Giannini, who worked for Bulldog Earth Movers, at the end of a weeklong trial that featured the testimony of former Bloomingdale Township Highway Commissioner Robert Czernek.
A federal jury on Monday convicted a west suburban contractor of paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to the elected head of the Bloomingdale Township highway department by inflating prices on stone deliveries and charging for sewer and dump leveling work that was never performed.
In an extremely rare development, a federal judge dismissed a case Friday against a contractor standing trial on charges of paying kickbacks to the Bloomingdale Township highway boss in exchange for work that in some cases was never performed.