The managing partner of an accounting firm with deep ties to the Daley family took center stage at Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson’s federal tax trial Wednesday — even winding up in trouble with the judge himself by the time he left the witness stand.
Robert Hannigan of Bansley & Kiener helped prosecutors and Thompson’s defense attorney paint conflicting portraits of the 11th Ward City Council member, as both an attentive, engaged tax client and a procrastinator always rushing to file his returns at the last minute.
