Hours after the mayor announced a list of applicants vying to replace convicted Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, his lawyers filed a motion for a new trial.
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, 11th, leaves the the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse after attending his trial on charges alleging he lied on federal tax returns about a line of credit he received from a Bridgeport bank that later collapsed on Feb. 10, 2022, in Chicago.
In their motion Tuesday, Thompson’s attorneys asked Valderrama to overturn the jury’s verdict and acquit him instead on all charges, saying the government had failed to meet its burden of proof.The motion also asked in the alternative that the judge grant Thompson a new trial, saying that “both the government’s closing argument and rebuttal argument were highly improper and prejudicial.”
In one particular passage pointed out by the defense, Netols told jurors that Thompson was blaming everyone for his mistakes, including officials at the now-shuttered Washington Federal Bank for Savings, the government and even the voters who elected him. Gair said in his argument that Netols’ comments were not even “remotely proper,” and that the judge sustaining the defense objection “is not enough.”
The charges were an offshoot of a much larger investigation into the bank’s failure, including a multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme allegedly orchestrated by the bank’s president, John Gembara, who was found hanged in the home of a customer days before federal regulators shut it down. A total of 14 others have been charged.
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