John Kass of the Chicago Tribune reports:
Combine boss William Cellini sat at the defense table, blinking, head bowed, a tiny man who was Mr. Big in Illinois politics, waiting, finally, for what was coming to him.
Mr. Big in the Rezko trials. Judge Zagel got some interesting letters pleading Zagel go easy on Cellini:
And it was certainly personal for the 364 people who wrote letters to Zagel on Cellini's behalf, asking for mercy, telling of Cellini's kindnesses.
The judge said he'd never received so many letters. Then Zagel really shocked me, and a few other reporters in the courtroom, when he talked about a few of the pro-Cellini letters. Among these, Zagel said, were "letters from three prominent journalists."
Imagine that.
