Federal Court Bombshell: FBI Mole Appears to Have Worn a Wire On Chicago Politicians at 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Lawyers for indicted Chicago Ald. Edward Burke alleged in a court filing Thursday that federal investigators bungled the wiretap of Burke’s phones and improperly tried to set him up in a scheme involving the old main post office that forms the backbone of the corruption case.


The allegations came in a motion to suppress the evidence gleaned from the wiretaps on Burke’s cellphone and City Hall offices, which allowed the FBI to monitor thousands of conversations the alderman made and received over the course of nearly a year.


The 71-page motion accuses prosecutors of directing then-Ald. Daniel Solis to have “scripted interactions” with Burke and lie about the post office deal in an effort to curry favor with the government. At the time, Solis had been recorded “committing a number of different crimes,” the motion stated.



The motion also revealed for the first time that Solis entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the government on Jan. 3, 2019, the same day Burke was first charged. It was soon after Solis had abruptly announced his retirement and just days before court records were unsealed showing Solis had been secretly recorded by a developer.

There's more:

The motion to suppress filed Thursday revealed that before tapping Burke’s cellphone, investigators in May 2017 had been granted authority to tap several telephone lines in Burke’s offices in City Hall. After several weeks of eavesdropping on a total of 2,185 calls, however, the wiretap of the landlines was abandoned, according to the motion.



The motion also offered new details in the potential origins of the probe, though Burke’s attorneys say prosecutors have not disclosed how or exactly when the investigation of Burke was officially opened.



Burke’s lawyers said the feds’ interest ramped up when Solis and Burke both attended the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. There, a state senator and “certain Chicago aldermen,” including Burke, approached Solis about hiring a certain contractor in the post office development.

We've been saying that former Chicago Alderman Danny Solis might have been wearing a wire on some important people. Was he wearing a wire on early retiree Luis Gutierrez at the DNC convention in 2016 in the picture above? Or early retiree Rahm Emanuel , who happened to be very close with Danny Solis. Or Barack Obama ? Danny Solis began cooperating with the FBI in June 2016...