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City gets a Hall monitor
Tribune staff reportersSuggesting that he felt duped by City Hall's past claims to have reined in patronage hiring, a federal judge Tuesday appointed a monitor with broad powers to oversee the city's personnel decisions. U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen gave the monitor,...Tags: Employment, Criminals, Career and Workplace, Employers, Government
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Lord Black: Unabashed, unbowed
Tribune staff reporterDefendants facing criminal charges usually shun the limelight. Not Conrad Black. The former owner of the Chicago Sun-Times has a date with federal prosecutors in Chicago in less than two weeks. But it will take more to silence this outspoken British lord...Tags: WorldCom Incorporated, New York, Bankruptcy, Criminals, Biography (genre)
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Feds join in probe of city's elite police
Tribune staff reportersThe U.S. attorney's office has joined the ongoing criminal probe of an elite squad of the Chicago Police Department, working with Cook County prosecutors to investigate why police officials did not stop rogue officers who allegedly robbed and kidnapped...Tags: Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Criminals, Drug Trafficking, Mickey Mantle, Entertainment
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The myth of nonpartisan U.S. attorneys
When Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced fired U.S. attorney David Iglesias at Tuesday's Judiciary Committee hearings, he noted that, among other attainments, Iglesias had served as the inspiration for the Navy lawyer played by Tom Cruise in "A Few...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, The Washington Post, Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania
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Use your vote
Illinois is the punch line of lots of jokes. What's the difference between a prostitute and an Illinois governor? A prostitute has a 10 percent chance of being indicted, 40 percent less than the governor. People are not laughing at our governors. They are...Tags: Prostitution, Democracy, George Ryan, Drugs and Medicines, Local Elections
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Chicago Tribune withheld publishing at U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald's request
Tribune reporterAs the federal probe into Gov. Rod Blagojevich intensified in recent weeks, editors and reporters at the Chicago Tribune balanced a competitive story with a rare request from U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald's office: To hold off on what they uncovered until...Tags: Criminals, Gerould W. Kern, Rod Blagojevich, Newspapers, Government
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Patrick Fitzgerald profile (March 2007)
Tribune staff reportersPatrick Fitzgerald has been living a dual life. As the top federal prosecutor in northern Illinois, Fitzgerald has solidified a reputation as a no-nonsense corruption buster--"Eliot Ness with a Harvard degree," as a friend once described him.In his other...Tags: Court Preliminary, Republican Party, New York, Career and Workplace, Central Intelligence Agency
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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich arrested
Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges. Blagojevich and Harris were accused of a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy that included Blagojevich conspiring to sell or trade the...Tags: Transportation, Criminals, Wrigley Field, Travel, Local Elections
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U.S. granted more time to indict Blagojevich
Federal prosecutors have been granted an extra three months to seek an indictment of Gov. Rod Blagojevich. U.S. Chief District Court Judge James Holderman entered an order allowing the indictment deadline to be extended from Jan. 7 to April 7, according...Tags: Criminals, Politics, Rod Blagojevich, Government, U.S. Senate
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Barack Obama, U.S. senators, state officials urge Rod Blagojevich to resign
Tribune staff reportersPresident-elect Barack Obama and Democrats in the U.S. Senate ratcheted up pressure on disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich to resign Wednesday while federal agents fanned out to investigate the details of the Illinois chief executive's alleged shakedown...Tags: Criminals, Wrigley Field, Career and Workplace, U.S. Presidential Transition (2009), Local Elections
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Obama report on contacts with Gov. Blagojevich
Tribune staff reportersWASHINGTON – A report issued by Barack Obama's White House transition team concluded that the president-elect had no contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his office and no one acting on Obama's behalf was involved in any "quid pro quo"...Tags: David Axelrod, Career and Workplace, Travel, Tammy Duckworth, Local Elections
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Obama aides won't be subpoenaed in impeachment hearings
Tribune staff reporterGov. Rod Blagojevich's attorney will not get to call key aides of President-elect Barack Obama to testify at impeachment hearings after U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald told an Illinois House panel doing so would "significantly compromise" his ongoing...Tags: Criminals, Witnesses, Barbara Flynn Currie, Local Elections, Jesse Jackson
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