Paying a Bribe to Be a Judge in Cook County?

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Former Cook County Judge George J.W. Smith pleaded guilty and went to prison in 2002 while keeping his mouth shut about allegations he'd paid a certain unnamed political figure $30,000 to buy his seat on the bench.

Now the 63-year-old Smith wants his law license reinstated, and in the process, he's disclosed an interesting piece of information you can read here first:

Around the time the judge went to prison, his wife Jolanta went on the payroll of Fast Eddie Vrdolyak, the man long suspected of being on the other end of that $30,000.

You'll want to read the whole article.No comment yet on this one from Alderman Burke the man who slates all the judges in Cook County.