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Friday's sentencing of developer Charles Cui gave U.S. District Chief Judge Virginia Kendall a rare opportunity to reflect on the sentence she handed Chicago's most-powerful City Council member two months ago.
It's a remarkable turnaround in a case that once seemed like a slam-dunk for the feds. Jurors in May 2023 convicted the four defendants of every count for which they’d been charged.
Prosecutors have no plan to file a revised indictment against the disgraced former Illinois House speaker.
A defense attorney predicted one of Chicago's high-stakes public corruption cases, the ComEd bribery case, will get a new trial. Michael Madigan’s trial is set for October but could be delayed.