Federal Judge: Chicago Politician Pulled Off The 'Corruption Trifecta'

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Telling three-times convicted former Chicago alderman Ambrosio Medrano that he had pulled off an “unprecedented . . . corruption trifecta,” a federal judge on Monday tacked an extra 2½ years onto the end of the 10½-year prison term the disgraced politician was handed last week.

U.S. District Judge John Tharp gave the disgraced politician the additional 30 months for paying a bribe to seal a dirty deal to win medical contracts from Los Angeles County.

Though another federal judge, Gary Feinerman, had just four days earlier handed Medrano 10½ years for a similar scam in Cook County, and Medrano’s lawyer warned that any extra time would like be a “death sentence” for the diabetic 60-year-old, Tharp said he needed to send a message that “there is no free pass for public corruption.”

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