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Former, current Chicago aldermen facing multiple charges
2021-04-29
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On April 29, former 22nd Ward Ald. Ricardo Munoz was indicted on federal charges alleging he spent cash from a political fund he controlled on sports tickets, travel, meals and other personal expenses, The Chicago Tribune reported.
Munoz was charged in an indictment with 15 counts of wire fraud and one count of money laundering.
His indictment came just an hour after former colleague Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, was charged in a separate case with filing false tax returns and lying to federal investigators looking into the collapse of a Bridgeport bank.
Daley appointed Munoz in 1993. Munoz—at one point, the longest-tenured Latino alderman—announced his retirement from the City Council in July 2018 and said he wouldn't seek re-election. |
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