CHICAGO—(ENEWSPF)—March 21, 2014. A Cook County official was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison for steering four county contracts, each just under $25,000, to four acquaintances and then taking a portion of the contract payments as kickbacks from each of them, totaling $34,700. The defendant, EUGENE MULLINS, who was director of the Cook County Department of Public Affairs and Communications between March 2008 and November 2010, was sentenced after being convicted of three…
