U.S. Attorney for Northern District of Illinois John Lausch joined “Chicago Tonight” to discuss his office’s high-profile cases from indictments of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and Ald. Ed Burke to convicting members of a reputed Chicago gang.
“It’s a remarkable case, I mean it started, like a lot of our cases do, as kind of an investigation into a group of individuals selling drugs in a particular neighborhood in the city of Chicago … following the evidence where it led was 13 people charged, 19 murders, 90 attempted murders, armed robberies, drug traffic …,” said U.S. Attorney for theJohn Lausch.
Without being able to disclose if he anticipates further charges, Lausch said in general that his office is “always open for business.”Ald. Ed Burke’s indictment of more than four years ago on corruption charges“I think we all like to see things happen swiftly, but we’re also very realistic about things,” Lausch said. “We did have the pandemic that came into play here as well, which put a lot of our trials on hold for various points of time … we need to make sure it gets done right ..
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