Ex-City Clerk to Seek Plea Deal in Bribery
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Former Chicago City Clerk James J. Laski expects to strike a plea bargain on charges that he demanded bribes to steer city trucking business to a friend, then urged his friend to lie to investigators, his attorney said.
“We’ll be pursuing a plea agreement as the way to resolve this,” Laski defense lawyer Jeffrey Steinback said after a hearing in federal court in Chicago.
“I expect that this will happen within the next four to five weeks at the longest.”
Laski is accused of taking $50,000 in bribes over about six years, stopping only when federal authorities made their first arrest in the investigation of the city’s Hired Truck Program in January 2004.
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