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 to open a convenience store but was actually a cooperating witness in an FBI undercover investigation. U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Der-Yeghiayan also sentenced Thompson to one year of supervision after his release and to forfeit $7,500, the amount of the bribe. Thompson was ordered to surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on September 1, 2015.
