The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Cook County government has seen 150 elected leaders and high-ranking officials sent to prison for crimes in office over the last 140 years, according to a new study that did the math.
That’s more than one bad apple a year sent to the pokey, according to the study released today by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s political science department and the watchdog group the Better Government Association.
Here's the impressive
report(PDF). The report mentions Judge Thomas Maloney:
An especially egregious example was Judge Thomas J. Maloney. He was convicted in Operation Greylord
of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes to fix felony cases including murder trials. Another outrageous example
was Marie D’Amico convicted in Operation Haunted Hall of having three no-work jobs. D’Amico is the daughter
of Alderman Tony Laurino and wife of then Deputy Commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Streets and
Sanitation John D’Amico, who did 2 years in federal prison for his involvement in the ghost payroll scheme.
Maloney went down in the
Operation Gambat trials. Maloney is the only judge in U.S. history ever convicted of fixing a murder trial. For a look at how Judge Maloney is
tied to the Chicago Mob.
