Blog Posts in 2013
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Warring Peterson lawyers take fight to court
Posted By Gal PissetzkyCHICAGO — Drew Peterson’s wisecracking, limelight-hogging, sunglasses-wearing lawyers faced the media horde every day of the former suburban Chicago police officer’s 2012 trial – one that ended with a murder conviction and a falling out among the erstwhile colleagues. But the lawyerly war of words in public between lead trial counsel Joel Brodsky and former partner-turned-nemesis Steve Greenberg ...Continue Reading -
Defense: Medrano never fell for government 'snitch'
Posted By Gal PissetzkyAmbrosio Medrano, a former Chicago alderman convicted nearly two decades ago of public corruption, was searching for a financial opportunity for his wife of 35 years so the two could retire and spend time with their grandchildren, his attorney told a jury today at Medrano’s federal bribery trial. So when an acquaintance said he had a millionaire medical sales rep pal in Los Angeles who could help ...Continue Reading -
Chicago's next prosecutor to be more of an insider
Posted By Gal PissetzkyJanuary 1, 2013 - Associated Press CHICAGO — The lanky, soft-spoken lawman from New York arrived in Chicago with a mandate to clean up corruption-plagued Illinois. And after a decade on the job, Patrick Fitzgerald had helped put two successive governors and a long procession of other public officials behind bars. Months after the consummate outsider resigned as head of the U.S. attorney’s office ...Continue Reading
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