Ex-Alderman Gets Jail for Payoffs
From Times Wire Reports
A former Chicago alderman convicted of taking $80,000 in cash to protect a group of companies that turned an illegal dump into a three-story mound of debris was sentenced to three years and three months in prison. Percy Z. Giles, 47, was also sentenced for cheating on his taxes and his city expense account and for pocketing $10,000 in cash slipped to him by a corrupt contractor. “When you lie down with dogs you get fleas,” U.S. District Judge Elaine Bucklo said in sentencing Giles.
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