Chicago Judge Receives 11 Years for Corruption
A Cook County circuit judge who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the Operation Greylord investigation was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison and five years’ probation.
Judge John H. McCollom is one of nine sitting or former judges convicted in the federal investigation of Cook County judicial corruption, which has yielded 59 convictions. One judge was acquitted.
McCollom, 64, was ordered to surrender Sept. 29 by U.S. District Judge James Moran, who recommended that he be incarcerated at the federal correctional facility at Oxford, Wis., said Assistant U.S. Atty. Sheldon T. Zenner. “I think it was a tough but fair sentence, considering the charges against Judge McCollom,” Zenner said.
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