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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

Former Teamsters boss John Coli gets 19 months in prison for illegal payments from Cinespace Studios

Former Teamsters boss John Coli was sentenced Wednesday to 19 months in prison for pocketing $325,000 in secret cash payments from Cinespace Chicago Film Studios. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

The feds say former Teamsters boss John T. Coli Sr. once saw himself as “bigger than life.”

Bold, brash and full of bravado, they say Coli once bragged “you can cut my fingers off, I wouldn’t talk” about secret, under-the-table cash payments from Cinespace Chicago Film Studios. He threatened to call a strike and shut down the studio if he didn’t get his money.

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