The former chief of staff for disgraced Cook County Commissioner Jeffrey Tobolski is the latest public official sentenced to prison in a wide-ranging federal corruption probe targeting Chicago’s south suburbs.
Commissioner Jeffrey Tobolski is the latest public official sentenced to prison in a wide-ranging federal corruption probe targeting Chicago’s south suburbs.
Doherty considered bribes a cost of doing business, Ardam said, quoting from a wiretapped conversation where he Doherty counseled an unnamed confederate about paying off a public official to get work from the village of McCook, where Tobolski also served as mayor.Doherty’s interlocutor responded: "It’s like you’re paying a little tax?"
Across a half-dozen schemes between 2015 until his indictment in 2020, Doherty paid or coordinated a total of at least $148,000 in bribes. Payouts included $2,000 monthly payments routed to state Sen. Martin Sandoval, who sat on the Transportation Committee, as well as making payments on Sandoval’s mortgage.A once high-ranking Cook County official pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday, admitting to a wide-ranging set of corruption schemes totaling $148,000 that involved the late state Sen.
"SafeSpeed remains profoundly disappointed that a former shareholder was engaged in alleged criminal conduct and that this person allegedly recruited outside individuals, including Patrick Doherty, to help further criminal activities," the statement read.
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