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Care of criminal conviction that has surely made at least certain Massachusetts politicians nervous, a longtime Chicago Alderman was convicted by the jury for a federal court trial on all but one count on a variety of charges ultimately tied to corruption.
Read all about it here.
The amazing thing to many was that most Chicagoans thought the convicted politician was safe from prosecution, much less conviction.
At the same time, it was conversely ironic how the racketeering aspects of the charges against him go back to laws enacted during the Prohibition Era for taking down organized crime.
Burke didn’t do anything that doesn’t happen in Chicago every day, but every ten years or so someone has to go to jail to show the Bureau is awake, and Burke got too big a head.
— Richard M. Nixon (@dick_nixon) December 21, 2023
Then again, many view government — or at least certain elected officials and their minions — as a manner of de facto organized criminal endeavor.
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