Daley Family Member Leaves Jail

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

John Briatta -- a brother-in-law of mayoral brother/Cook County Commissioner John Daley -- was due to get out of a federal halfway house Wednesday.

Briatta, 48, served most of an 18-month prison sentence for taking bribes in the Hired Truck Program.

A city water department dispatcher, Briatta took at least $5,400 from a company secretly owned by Mick Jones, a close friend and top aide to then-City Clerk Jim Laski, so Jones' trucks would be hired. Jones and Laski pleaded guilty.