Bribery Figure Had Wire Experience

He's worn a wire before and still got hired by an aldercreature:

• The undercover informant who secretly recorded meetings with Ald. Howard Brookins as part of an FBI sting testified Monday that he also wore a wire for authorities after his 2008 arrest in a federal mortgage-fraud investigation.
  
  Mhde Askar, who pronounces his name “Moddy,” is at the center of the case against Brookins’ longtime chief of staff, Curtis Thompson Jr., who was charged late last month with accepting a $7,500 bribe from Askar in exchange for the alderman’s blessing on a liquor license in his 21st Ward. Brookins has not been charged and has denied any wrongdoing.

Of course he's innocent. Innocent as a new born babe. Pay no attention to where he was sitting when the bribe was offered:

• According to the criminal complaint against Thompson, Askar, who was identified only as Cooperating Witness 1, wore a hidden video recorder to several meetings with Brookins and his staff a few months ago as he pretended to be in search of a liquor license for a new convenience store.
  
  At one meeting in October, Askar presented the alderman with a photograph of a store that had a Post-it note stuck askew on the bottom, spelling out a $12,000 bribe in exchange for the alderman's support. Brookins turned his head “slightly sideways” as he looked at the paper, then passed it to an aide who handed it to Thompson, prosecutors said.

If we were anyone who even talked to Brookins in the last few years, we'd be very very nervous about now.