As his sentencing nears, hundreds of people ask for leniency for ex-Ald. Ed Burke.
WBEZ News · WBEZ Chicago
June 12, 20244m 6s
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Show Notes
If prosecutors have it their way — ex-Chicago alderman Ed Burke would spend 10 years in federal prison.
That would amount to one of the harshest public corruption sentences handed down in the city’s federal court in the last decade.
Burke’s defense team is asking the judge for NO prison time for their client.
WBEZ’s Mariah Woelfel joins us now for more of what’s to come for the longest serving alderman in Chicago history.