Steep Learning Curve
You'd think that most people, after spending time in prison, would try to avoid another stint there. That doesn't seem to be the case here:
- Disgraced former Chicago Ald. Ambrosio Medrano once boasted that he wanted to be a “pig” who feasted on government contracts.
On Friday, he was sent back to the pen.
Calling the serially corrupt 60-year-old Southwest Side politician a “cynical” operator who followed the city’s unofficial motto of “Where’s mine?,” U.S. District Judge Gary Feinerman sentenced Medrano to 10½ years in prison.
He seems to have gone to the Beavers School of Political Corruption:
- The federal prosecutor pointed to one of the most damning pieces of evidence against Medrano — the tape in which he echoed Moreno’s comments that he wanted to be a “pig” who made money on dirty government deals, but not a “hog” because “hogs get slaughtered.”
In a just world, he'd have lots of company in short order.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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10.5 years is not enough - imagine, this career politician never produced anything, never built or repaired a structure, nor manufacture a widget.
Want to know what’s wrong with Chicago.
Look no further than it citizens.
The first case takes place in Chicago:
A Cook County jury has acquitted a 19-year-old man accused of killing an up-and-coming fashion stylist during what authorities described as a robbery-gone-bad on the South Side.
A jury before Judge Erica Reddick on Wednesday found Cortez Smith not guilty in the shooting death of Dione Deshawn Moody just days before Christmas in 2011.
The second case takes place in Florida:
A Florida man who stabbed a visiting Chicago Bears fan to death in a restaurant was sentenced to life in prison Friday, authorities said.
It's really unfortunate for him that none of Daley's skill in these types of matters rubbed off on him while Richie was still in office.
That's because democrats don't look upon it as criminal. They think it is just taking what is owed to them. True democrat politicians don't think like ordinary people.
He must really like the food and "shower time". Maybe he can get out and try for a 3rd corruption conviction. If anyone can, Medrano can!!
Anonymous said...
Want to know what’s wrong with Chicago.
Look no further than it citizens.
The first case takes place in Chicago:
A Cook County jury has acquitted a 19-year-old man accused of killing an up-and-coming fashion stylist during what authorities described as a robbery-gone-bad on the South Side.
A jury before Judge Erica Reddick on Wednesday found Cortez Smith not guilty in the shooting death of Dione Deshawn Moody just days before Christmas in 2011.
The second case takes place in Florida:
A Florida man who stabbed a visiting Chicago Bears fan to death in a restaurant was sentenced to life in prison Friday, authorities said.
1/11/2014 12:38:00 AM
Maybe they are following tony precwinkel to many black and brown in jail bullshit! Like in the paper recently about how many blacks get suspended vs whites in cps! Even though whites are less than 10% in the shit school system here! So much race card bullshit so much!
he already has been convicted of three federal felony corruption charges, he will be sentenced soon for the 3rd case. this guy made history among local democrats-what a fool!
Maybe it is because Obama did not include the Southside in his promise zones. A lot of Chicago's crime problem is because of poverty. The Southside is ultra poor, yet Obama left it out of the Poverty Zone list. Federal agencies will not swoop in with their money, help, and training to lift the Southside out of it's poverty and into the middle class. Only the federal government can stop and then cure poverty.
Why hasn't Obama sent the federal government of help the Southside of Chicago? After all, the Southside was his home, it's where he got his start and learned to be a great leader. Now that he is president and leader of the free world, why hasn't made the Southside a Promise Zone and started in on the road to propestertiy?
It is because without federal programs and money, the cycle of poverty cannot be broken. The federal government has abandoned Chicago's Southside. Reverend Jackson can't do it all on his own. The people need federal help and dollars.
It's like what Savage says: Liberalism is a mental disorder. Great book by the way.
I worked in 010 when this ass clown was alderman. He had his hands in just about everything whether it was honest or corrupt, from making money off of the bars and nightclubs who let minors in to the shopping plaza on 26th street that did just about anything that was illegal .
The big guys do not recruit minions from Ivy League schools. The idiots do their bidding and go to jail. They steal a fraction of what the big guys steal.
The voters wise up once in a while, so, there has to be a sacrifice. Someone needs to go to jail. It's the little fish, and they are too stupid to keep notes. There are no shortage of stupid people willing to do wrong for a pittance.
Hate these politicians. Hate them with all you have in you. Remember their lies. Vote them out and spit at them in public. No, you'll go to jail. Just call them thieves.
Good for him this "pig" was friends with a former lapa cpt parra and gangbanger defense attorney deleon old buddies from pilsen makes you wonder how many others were friends with ambrosio 2x felon
It is time for the Feds to look at the DALEY crime family or is it the luck of the Irish?
Not to worry. When he gets out, he can run for office again like Al Sanchez.
Felony conviction & jail time are badges of honor among Illinois politicians, worth 100,000 votes.
Universal term limits. If it's good enough for our presidents it's good enough for the rest of 'em.
Blaho got a lot more for a lot less.
So basically after he gets out early for good behavior he can return and run again for office ! Only in shitago!
OT: Keep McCarthy, he's better than the low life we'll get in his place.
Woodchipper.
What was so bad about just running a good old fashioned damn bowling alley?
I grew up bowling there, taking our hot dog special from frank's next door to eat and bowl in his dad's ratty old Cermak Bowl. Bowling a few games with breaks for kung fu master on the machine...
I made the best out of growing up in that shitty ass neighborhood but some people just have to be dirty.
That's all the 25th ward ever had...scumbags.
Juan Soliz befor him, Marzullo before that, and even Danny Soliz today-only difference is they hide the dirty money trail a little better because it's all political hack money from kickbacks with the machine's blessing instead of whatever sloppy shit medrano was pulling.
They're smart enough to carry a gun. The average Chicagoan? Not so much:
Pistol packin’ aldermen protected by the law
by Faith Okpotor
February 3, 2006
Despite the fact that it is illegal for ordinary citizens to carry concealed weapons in Chicago, it's different for alderman. An 1872 state law allows aldermen and other municipal officials, as peace officers, to carry guns, make arrests and detain suspects "after receiving a certificate attesting to the successful completion of a training course administered by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board."
Another alderman opposed to guns is Walter Burnett Jr. (27th).
"I am totally against it," Burnett said, adding, however, that he would not criticize his colleagues who have chosen to own guns.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing over the 134 years the law has been in effect is that no gunfights have taken place during a City Council meeting or the often contentious committee meetings
Former state Rep. Lee Preston, D-Chicago, now a Cook County judge, said he unsuccessfully tried to repeal the law when he was serving in the General Assembly. Preston said his measure failed because aldermen were successful in getting their legislators to protect their clout.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1571273/posts
Medrano learned from Vito Marzullo, not Beavers.
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he did what he learned and saw coming up in the organization.
...and, he would defend the police at community meetings.
It's actually a shame a guy could think this way still, in 2014.
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