Prosecution ends in Chicago patronage trial
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A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday that city officials violated a ban on patronage hiring and &quot;handed out 5,000 jobs&quot; in their zeal to build an army of campaign workers.
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Jury selection got under way Tuesday in the city's biggest organized crime trial in years, a racketeering conspiracy case that includes at least 18 murders, among them a killing that inspired a character in the movie "Casino."
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CHICAGO, Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the last two years, more than $29 million has flowed into campaign funds controlled by Chicago city officials and their challengers, and now it's easy for voters to identify the big contributors and see where the money is going.
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On Tuesday afternoon, prosecutors in Redwood City finally finished playing recorded phone conversations between accused murderer Scott Peterson and his former mistress.
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CHICAGO -- The former director of a nonprofit that delivers holiday meals to some 5,000 needy Chicagoans has been charged with siphoning off $93,000 from the organization and leaving taxpayers with the tab.
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The city's biggest mob trial in years went to the jury Thursday after prosecutors made a last pitch to sway jurors to believe the testimony of their star witness, an admitted hit man.
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The first trial arising from the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal is moving into a new phase, with prosecutors calling on witnesses to corroborate e-mails detailing the lobbyist&#039;s requests for help from a top procurement official in the Bush administration.
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A federal jury held three aging mobsters responsible for 10 murders Thursday after an extraordinary trial that included colorful witnesses who exposed the seedy inner workings of organized crime in Chicago.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - A federal judge in Chicago has  found sufficient evidence to allow an antitrust suit against  concert promoter Clear Channel Entertainment to proceed to  trial.
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REDWOOD CITY - Testimony in Scott Peterson&#39;s double-murder trial abruptly ended Wednesday with prosecuting attorneys deciding not to call rebuttal witnesses.
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It was a dramatic end to a trial that pitted Notre Dame football coach Charlie Weis against two respected surgeons: a juror collapsed, the doctors rushed to his aid and the judge declared a mistrial.
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Jury selection got under way Tuesday in the city's biggest organized crime trial in years, a racketeering conspiracy case that includes at least 18 slayings, among them a killing that inspired a character in the movie "Casino."
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A judge on Friday acquitted a business owner, manager and promoter accused of manslaughter in a 2003 nightclub stampede that killed 21 people. In his ruling, Cook County Judge Dennis Porter agreed with defense attorneys that prosecutors had failed to show the men played any role in causing the tragedy.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 29 -- "There he is, there's Calabrese and there's the Indian and there's Joey the Clown," said Lee Anne Roggensack, excitedly pointing out three of the elderly defendants in the Family Secrets mob conspiracy trial, where closing arguments conclude Thursday.
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Even in this city of sin, the tawdry trial of a former stripper and her secret lover accused of murdering a former casino executive for a treasure of buried silver was a decadent distraction until guilty verdicts brought the case to a close in May 2000.
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Chicago's biggest mob trial in years started Thursday with a prosecutor urging the jury to forget what they know about movie mobsters and see the now-elderly defendants for who they are: men who "committed brutal crimes on behalf of the Chicago Outfit."
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Oprah Winfrey's minus at least one fan today after convicting a   Chicago man of murder on Wednesday.