Slapping the Beaver

Prison time for the hog with the big nuts:

• The Hog looks like he’s heading for the pen.
  
  That’s the likely fate of Cook County Commissioner William Beavers after a jury took less than two hours Thursday to find him guilty of being a tax cheat.
  
  But the self-proclaimed “hog with the big nuts” went down swinging — repeating his claim that he’d been unfairly prosecuted by the feds for refusing to wear a wire against fellow Commissioner John Daley.
  

That's looking like a pretty short-sighted decision then, isn't it? Should've worn the wire dumbass. What can Daley (any of them) do for you now?

Let the whining commence:

• Under state law, Beavers’ conviction means he will automatically lose his seat on the County Board. His attorneys — unhappy at a series of rulings Judge James Zagel made — said he will appeal.
  
  And Beavers himself blasted Zagel, saying the judge who ultimately will sentence him was “really unfair.” Beavers told reporters he did not testify because Zagel had it in for him.
  
  “Look, if I had taken the stand the judge wasn’t going to let me do what I wanted to do,” Beavers said.
  
  “The judge was really unfair. That’s why I didn’t take the stand because he was never going to let me tell what I wanted to tell.”
  

Yeah, right. Zagel wasn't going to let Beavers get up there and spin a bullshit yarn without being subject to cross examination, whereby Beavers would have talked himself into a perjury charge within 18 minutes according to someone running a pool in the federal building.

Seventy-eight and headed to prison. About freaking time.