Federal prosecutors accused Chicago’s longest-serving City Council member of wielding his power to “satisfy his own greed,” to “line his own pockets,” and to “punish and to extort,” as closing arguments got underway Wednesday in his historic corruption trial.
For a moment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane MacArthur even began to compare former Ald. Edward M. Burke to Danny Solis, the infamous FBI mole whom Burke’s attorneys have labeled “Exhibit A” for corruption.
