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Ex-state senator who did prison time over job that required ‘little to no work’ finds work on the outside — as a state lobbyist

Ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton pleaded guilty last summer to embezzling funds from a labor union and was sentenced to more than a year in prison. But he was released early — and 11 days later, he registered as a lobbyist with a public relations and government affairs firm.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Teamsters boss John Coli Sr. sentenced to 19 months in federal prison in extortion case

CHICAGO — Former Teamsters union boss John Coli Sr. once basked in a reputation as a tough-nosed, nationally known organized labor figure, rubbing elbows with the state’s political and business elite, running up $15,000 tabs at Chicago steakhouses, and cruising around the Mediterranean on other people’s yachts.

Chicago Tribune

Ex-Teamsters' boss gets 19 months in Chicago extortion case

A once-powerful labor leader in Chicago has been sentenced to 19 months in federal prison for extorting $325,000 in cash payments from the head of a film studio in the city

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

The feds enlisted Coli as a cooperator in 2019, just as a set of aggressive investigations into old-school, Chicago-style corruption turned public. He was seen as particularly significant given his ties to former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, former Chicago Mayors Richard M. Daley and…

Chicago Sun-Times

Former Teamsters boss John Coli asks judge for home confinement, probation

Coli admitted in 2019 he’d taken $325,000 in cash payments from Cinespace Chicago Film Studios between 2014 and 2017. Worried at one point the money would stop, Coli told Cinespace president Alex Pissios, “I will f---ing have a picket line up here, and everything will stop.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds ask judge to sentence ex-Teamster boss John Coli to 19 months in prison

John Coli once bragged, “You can cut my fingers off, I wouldn’t talk.” Two years later, Coli pleaded guilty and formally agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

Chicago Sun-Times

The rise and fall of another Chicago political dynasty — the 34th Ward Democrats

“We were in the same political family,” former Illinois Senate President Emil Jones Jr. says. “We were able to elect a county commissioner, we were able to elect state reps, senators — and it all came out of that organization.”

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Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton sentenced to one year in prison in federal embezzlement case

Prosecutors had asked the judge to give Cullerton up to 18 months in prison. The former senator’s defense attorney asked for probation and community service.

Chicago Sun-Times

Feds ask judge to send former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton to prison for up to 18 months in embezzlement case

Even though he had faced indictment since August 2019, the Villa Park Democrat held onto his seat until last February, resigning just before his attorney revealed his plans to plead guilty.

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Teamsters boss bragged ‘you can cut my fingers off, I wouldn’t talk’ years before deal with feds

It’s yet another made-for-Hollywood scene straight out of real-life Chicago corruption, according to an FBI affidavit recently obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. It happened more than two years before John Coli struck a deal with the feds and admitted he’d taken $325,000 in cash payments from…

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Former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton pleads guilty to embezzling from Teamsters

Cullerton faced indictment since August 2019. But he held onto his office until last month, resigning just before his attorney revealed his plans to plead guilty.

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State Sen. Thomas Cullerton to plead guilty in federal embezzlement case

The 2019 indictment against Cullerton came days after former Chicago Teamsters boss John T. Coli pleaded guilty in an extortion case. The charges that followed against Cullerton revolved around Cullerton’s role as an organizer for Teamsters Joint Council 25.

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