State Crime Reports

Chicago Alderman’s Former Chief Of Staff Sentenced To 15 Months For Accepting $7,500 Bribe

CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–May 27, 2015.  A former chief of staff for a Chicago alderman was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for accepting a $7,500 cash bribe in exchange for obtaining the alderman’s letter of support for a license to sell alcohol in the alderman’s ward.  The defendant, CURTIS V. THOMPSON, JR., 63, of Chicago, pled guilty in December 2014 to federal program bribery, in accepting a bribe from an individual who claimed he wanted…

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