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Local lawyer named to corruption fighting Chicago prosecutor job
ReutersBy Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has nominated Chicago attorney Zachary Fardon to be the U.S. prosecutor in Chicago, which has seen the indictments of many top local politicians and mob figures, the two U.S....Tags: Dick Durbin, Mark Kirk, Lawyers, Elections, Dick Cheney
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Lawyer who helped prosecute Gov. Ryan tapped for U.S. attorney's post
The lawyer picked Thursday to succeed Patrick Fitzgerald as Chicago's U.S. attorney is a former federal prosecutor best known for taking on corrupt politicians and powerful institutions such as the University of Notre Dame. Zachary Fardon would take...
Tags: Dick Durbin, Sports, University of Michigan, Mark Kirk, Orthopedic Surgery
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Ex-federal prosecutor Fardon nominated for U.S. attorney
A former federal prosecutor who was a key member of the team that won a conviction of former Gov. George Ryan was nominated today to be Chicago’s next U.S. attorney. Zachary Fardon, 46, won the nod over Lori Lightfoot, who as a woman and an...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Justice System, Barack Obama, Lawyers
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In Florida, a question of timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Rick Scott, Government, Punishment, Regional Authority
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In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...Tags: Rick Scott, Government, Politics, Punishment, Illinois Governor
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Column: In Florida, timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn’t change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates...Tags: Entertainment Events, Rick Scott, Government, Punishment, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Voice of the People, May. 11
Promoting gambling Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made a video using the plight of Chicago's schoolchildren to promote the building of a casino in Chicago. This resurrects sad memories for many of us of the Illinois Lottery's self-justification in 1974 that...Tags: Judges, Chicago Elections, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Transit Authority, Punishment
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...
Tags: Justice and Rights, U.S. Supreme Court, Defendants, George W. Bush, Foods and Beverages
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Ex-lawmaker nearly doubles his pension with one month of work
All it took for former state Rep. Robert Molaro to nearly double his public pension was spending one month as an aide to Ald. Ed Burke, the powerful chairman of the Chicago City Council's Finance Committee. Among Molaro's duties: Write a 19-page white...Tags: Pension and Welfare, Chicago City Council, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, Government
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Illinois government: Governor, legislative leaders increase private meetings
Tribune reporterSPRINGFIELD — Gov. Pat Quinn and the top legislative leaders strode down a stairwell and into a Capitol hearing room for a private meeting with the House and Senate lawmakers—all fellow Democrats—who together control state government....Tags: National Government, Judges, Government, Pat Quinn, Lawyers
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Digging a pension hole
Illinois' pension system was in precarious enough shape in 1994 that Democrats and Republicans came together to solve a crisis threatening the state's financial future.
The agreement they forged was supposed to take politics out of pension funding by...Tags: Springfield, Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, State Budgets
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Public records: Illinois' leading lawmakers privately circulate proposal to undercut effort for better open records law
Tribune reportersIllinois' leading lawmakers privately circulated their own proposal for a new public records law Wednesday that would essentially gut months of work by interest groups attempting to strengthen the state's notoriously weak public access to government...Tags: Chicago Tribune, Government, Pat Quinn, Lawyers, Freedom of Information Laws
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May 19, 2013
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May 19, 2013
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May 18, 2013
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May 11, 2013
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May 9, 2013
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Dec 16, 2011
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Dec 15, 2011
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May 21, 2009
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