Fake ID Murder Trial

Unfortunately, Aldercreature Munoz wasn't indicted as part of this:

• Six years after heavily armed federal agents stormed the 26th Street Discount Mall and seized ID-making equipment, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Nasser told jurors that grisly wiretaps, video footage and insider accounts will show how the Leija-Sanchez crew used violence and paid the Latin Kings to protect its turf for two decades.
  
  Julio Leija-Sanchez and his brother Manuel deny charges of running the U.S. and Mexican branches of the business, respectively, while Salazar-Rodriguez denies he was the enforcer who murdered Montes.
  
  But tens of thousands of fake drivers licenses, green cards and social security cards were sold at $200 a pop to immigrants out of the parking lot in front of a photo store run by Ald. Ricardo Munoz’s father, Elias, Nasser said. Illegal workers were smuggled across the border, then forced to join the business to pay off their debt, she said.

Of course, no one mentions the aldercreature's mother who was arrested with a stack of fake ID's back in the 1990's and released after phone calls from Ricardo.  And the Tribune seems to forget that they did an entire series about how the latin kings were pulling in $30,000 a month in protection money from the "mica men" back in the 1990's.  Or how the building at 26th and St. Louis burned to the ground one night - a building that housed the other Photo Estudio Munoz.  Or the little matter of a teenaged Munoz holding weapons for a certain gang making $30,000 per month in protection money.

That isn't talked about in polite company.