After more than a year and a half of back-and-forth legal briefs, a federal judge on Tuesday will hear arguments on motions in the corruption case against Chicago Ald. Edward Burke.
on 14 counts including racketeering, federal program bribery, attempted extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion and using interstate commerce to facilitate an unlawful activity.
The indictment also accused developer Charles Cui of hiring Burke’s law firm in exchange for the alderman’s help with a sign permit and financing deal for a project in the Portage Park neighborhood.is a motion to suppress the evidence gleaned from the wiretaps The motion also revealed for the first time that Solis entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the government on Jan. 3, 2019, the same day Burke was first charged. It was soon after Solis had abruptly announced his retirement and just days before court records were unsealed showing Solis had beenAccording to the filing, Solis admitted in the agreement taking campaign cash from a real estate developer in exchange for official action at the Zoning Committee that Solis chaired.
According to the filing, then-U.S. District Chief Judge Ruben Castillo used the misinformation from prosecutors to find that there was probable cause for the wiretaps.that Burke was unfairly targeted, saying in many cases it was Burke who had his hand out. Among the options considered was to have an undercover agent pose as a real estate developer to try to catch Burke in the act, according to the filing. But it was determined “it would be very difficult to develop a satisfactory ‘cover story’” and the idea was scrapped as too risky.
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