Posted on 09/10/2009 7:39:43 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
The federal bribery trial of a City of Chicago building inspector opened Wednesday with a prosecutor telling jurors they were not handling a particularly complicated case. "It's all about someone taking money he's not entitled to for official acts with the city," Assistant U.S. Atty. Juliet Sorensen said in her opening statement. On trial is Michael Reese, one of more than two dozen individuals charged in Operation Crooked Code, the investigation of bribery in the city's Buildings and Zoning Departments. Reese, 39, was indicted in December on one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators. Sorensen told the jury that Reese conspired with another former buildings inspector, David Johnson, to take cash in exchange for doing favors for a contractor named Sorin Adrian Oros. Johnson and Oros were convicted and are set to testify against Reese.
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A criminal Chicago official? Well will wonders never cease??!!
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