The Chicago Tribune's John Kass Interviews AG Bill Barr who says federal corruption hunters never 'at a loss for work’ in Chicago

The Chicago Tribune reports:

Barr told me he wants Chicago’s U.S. Attorney John Lausch to stay on and hunt political corruption in Illinois.

That’s bad news for Illinois Democratic Boss Mike Madigan, considering the massive federal corruption investigation stretching from Chicago, through Commonwealth Edison and onto Springfield. Madigan has not been charged with wrongdoing, but he is linked to a ComEd bribery case.

We talked about liberal soft-on-crime local prosecutors and local judges, and how their policies of low or no bail, and electronic home monitoring, even for accused violent offenders, allow criminal predators to hurt their communities.


And Barr made national news, too, talking of the November election chaos that could come with Democrats pushing mail-in voting, and the fevered left and its media allies wildly speculating President Donald Trump may not concede if he loses, though Hillary Clinton has adamantly exhorted Democrat Joe Biden never to concede.

That’s when I mentioned Johnny Rocco, a Chicago criminal and political boss played by Edward G. Robinson in the old Bogart movie “Key Largo.” Rocco knew how to count votes “over and over until they added up right.”

“Just think about the way we vote now,” Barr said. "You have a precinct, your name is on a list, you go in and say who you are, you go behind a curtain, no one is allowed to go in there to influence you, and no one can tell how you voted. All of that is gone with mail-in voting. There’s no secret vote. You have to associate the envelope in the mailing and the name of who’s sending it in, with the ballot.

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