Is Another Chicago Mob Trial Coming?

John Kass reports:

At Chicago's high-end nightspots like Reserve and RiNo, where they pour $800 bottle-service champagne for big spenders and women who find such men irresistible, there are many fairy tales.

This isn't a fairy tale, but I'd love to write the screenplay.

Two of Chicago's top criminal lawyers -- Edward Genson and Joseph "The Shark" Lopez -- have been retained by a former club owner and a City Hall building inspector as a joint federal and city inspector general's investigation continues into the bar business and City Hall occupancy permits, which determine how many spenders can be legally packed into one nightclub.

At least one Rush Street bar manager is cooperating, wearing a wire in conversations with city employees, said a source familiar with the case.

This may explain why city Inspector General David Hoffman, a former assistant U.S. attorney, has fallen out of favor with Mayor Richard Daley's administration.

When Hoffman's probe into the Buildings Department began months ago -- and when he brought in the feds -- the mayor's aides viewed him as a threat, even though Daley hired him in a public display of anti-corruption gusto.

Genson represents former Reserve and Crescendo nightclub owner Anthony Demasi, a Michigan lawyer who mysteriously got into the high-end club scene while in his 20s to open two of the hottest places in town.

Lopez represents veteran City Hall building inspector Anthony Boggia, known in political circles and at Tavern on Rush as "Bojo." Boggia's name appears on multiple Buildings Department documents relating to Demasi's former nightclubs.

Ed Genson represented this high ranking "made member" of the Chicago Mob.Joe Lopez just represented convicted killer and Chicago Mob member Frank Calabrese.This has the potential to be another Mob trial.