The Chicago Tribune reports on the only judge in U.S. history convicted of fixing a murder trial:
Thomas Maloney, a former Cook County judge who spent 12 years in prison for taking money to fix murder cases, died Monday, according to his former attorney, Terence Gillespie.Let's correct the record here for the Tribune.It wasn't Operation Greylord but Operation Gambat.No word yet from Alderman Burke on this one.
Maloney, 83, had recently been put in a nursing home and suffered from kidney failure, Gillespie said.
Maloney was the first Cook County judge to be convicted of rigging murder cases for cash when he was found guilty in April 1993. His conviction stemmed from the Operation Greylord probe into judicial corruption in the mid 1980s.
