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- Gene Lee, a onetime top aide to former Mayor Richard Daley, has been a fixture in the civic life of Chicago’s Chinatown for more than four decades.
He organized the bustling neighborhood’s annual summer fair, marshaled resources for Chinese culture and the arts, and founded the Chicago Dragons Athletic Association, a sponsor of youth and adult basketball and traditional dancing and music credited with keeping underprivileged children off the streets.
But while Lee, 65, was busy promoting Chinatown, he was also stealing from the charities that were supposed to help the community, federal prosecutors say.
On Thursday, Lee was sentenced to five years of probation for stealing more than $90,000 from 2007 to 2010 and using much of it to pay for personal expenses such as suits, ties, travel and meals at fancy restaurants. The conviction -- Lee pleaded guilty in April to theft and filing a false tax return -- had nothing to do with his duties as a deputy chief of staff to Daley.
Hell, how much time did Blago get? And he never sniffed a dime.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
35 Comments:
Since Richie was responsible for which fed judges were appointed this should come as no surprise (Anne Burke etc). This guy had been delivering votes and cash out of that neighborhood for decades.
No justice here. He was convicted of filing a false tax return to the uber crooks and cheats in the IRS.
"Hell, how much time did Blago get? And he never sniffed a dime."
The haircut makes the man.
He stole more than $90,000 USC from charities and that had nothing to do with his role as a deputy chief of staff to daley??!! Doncha might think that people donated to those charities and donated alot precisely because of his role as deputy chief to daley?
Incredible . . .
Blago was no angel but his biggest crime was taking on the democratic (lower case "d" on purpose) machine in illinois (lower case "i" here too not a sic) and losing.
I'd like to see Blago's case overturned. If the feds went after blago, why don't they go after daley, who rank-wise was lower than a governor, but i guess if you talk "clout"-wise daley has him beat.
If that guy got time he might talk.
they can't have that.
Thank goodness they have judges or they would have had to whack him. ....and that can get messy.
I'd like to see Blago's case overturned. If the feds went after blago, why don't they go after daley, who rank-wise was lower than a governor, but i guess if you talk "clout"-wise daley has him beat.
9/19/2014 12:50:00 AM
You'd like to see Blago's case overturned because others got away? You are a mush.
I'd like to see his tier filled with his politician cohorts.
He's my Chinaman, i'm fucked now.
Chances are pretty high of you going to jail if you had any connection with Daley...Luv it. Cant wait to spit on his grave after he's buried.
Keep thinking the system is not rigged!
You ever wonder if a judge in criminal trials can be "influenced" how hard would it be to bribe a arbitrator?
And i believe one of those great guy letters was from our old feeble mayor who pretends he is a lawyer.
I wonder if a FOIA request on the court can read all those glowing letters sent to the judge? HINT HINT suntime...
I hope he has a chinaman
Respectfully Gentlemen of the Blue,
You'll all be a lot happier when you figure out you're the last ones who believe in Law still, it's gone. We'll all be happier.
Law is Dead. It's GONE.
The Lawyers know this, can't you tell? You have such qualities of bravery, noble self-sacrifice. But you are getting played by these lawyers who slave for, do you think they believe in Law, or Right and Wrong?.
To quote your enemies: Take The Power.
Your entire solution is in your hands, you are looking at your savior in the mirror.
He was an arrogant SOB!!!!
To First commenter: Anne Burke is not a federal judge. she is on the illinois supreme court and lives with her husband alderman ed burke
"If that guy got time he might talk.
they can't have that.
Thank goodness they have judges or they would have had to whack him. ....and that can get messy."
9/19/2014 01:08:00 AM
Oh, I dunno. Dog walker by Chicago River comes upon expensive shoes removed, placed side by side next to neatly folded topcoat with hat and eyeglasses on top of it.
Mmm. Didn't leave a note...
...and it always stops just short of You Know Who -- like when someone kicked the plug out of the wall on the Blago tapes just in time.
Don't worry. "Wheels of justice grind slowly but they grind exceedingly fine." Daley is already marked up on the Devil's work board for Coke Oven #27, where he will be under the supervision of the dead from St. Johannes' Cemetery.
Shades of Wilson Moy.
Anonymous said...
Since Richie was responsible for which fed judges were appointed this should come as no surprise (Anne Burke etc). This guy had been delivering votes and cash out of that neighborhood for decades.
9/19/2014 12:25:00 AM
Anne Burke is not a Federal judge. I don't know about the etc.
Blago will be pardoned by Obama before he is out of office..... It's the pay off, shut your mouth, do your time, your family will be cared for, and I'll pardon you......just suck it up, consider it payment for going against the machine..... And I'm sure Blago,will,get a nice paying job when he's released....
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Chicago-Police-Board-Dismisses-Officer-Who-Pulled-Gun-on-Cabbie-275743681.html
Did he pay it back in full via assets seizure or otherwise? Was this how he got probation? Either way, way too lenient sentence.
When's the contract vote....I'm gearing up for a big fat Noooooooo
One, two, three--Look at Mr. Lee
Three, four, five---Look at him jive.
Anonymous said...
Blago will be pardoned by Obama before he is out of office..... It's the pay off, shut your mouth, do your time, your family will be cared for, and I'll pardon you......just suck it up, consider it payment for going against the machine..... And I'm sure Blago,will,get a nice paying job when he's released....
9/19/2014 10:45:00 AM
You sir/madam definitely know how the game is played.
Anonymous said...
Chances are pretty high of you going to jail if you had any connection with Daley...Luv it. Cant wait to spit on his grave after he's buried.
9/19/2014 07:17:00 AM
That guy pissing standing next to you would be me.
The president appoints federal judges and the Chinese keep their mouths shut. I have never seen anyone from Chinatown get jail time they police their own.
OT --
Radio news report, we are getting a new Cardinal -- Bishop of Spokane. Didn't catch name.
Sound bite, got off a dozen words and half of them were "not enough gun control."
When you land here, and the car arrives to take you to the Cardinal's Mansion, are you going to have him detour over to St. Sabina's first, to pay your obeisance to O Holy Highest Uppersuperiorgod Run It All And Never Never Never Gonna Go Away Fr. Michael Pfleger?
Gah. >urp<
OT -- Recently mentioned this in general terms in other comments -- and now, like clockwork -
Prosecutors: Health aide stole from 2 women, one of them on her deathbed
"A health aide from Chicago has been charged with stealing from two women in her care, one of them while she was dying, DuPage County prosecutors said.
"Latesha Miller, 37, was ordered held in lieu of $300,000 bail Thursday by DuPage County Judge Jane Hird Mitton. She is charged with theft, forgery and financial exploitation of an elderly person.
"In August, Miller stole two checks from a woman in Winfield who was dying and receiving home hospice care. Miller, who was employed by home health care service, wrote out a check to an acquaintance for just under $499.50, and the friend cashed the check, keeping $200 and giving the rest to Miller, police say.
"A second attempt to cash a forged check – this time for almost $6,900 – failed because the account had been frozen, prosecutors said. The victim in that case has since died...
"In 2013, while working as a certified nursing assistant at a Naperville senior care facility, Miller took a credit card from an 86-year-old resident, prosecutors said. Miller made unauthorized purchases and took cash advances on the card, as well as making deposits into her own bank account from the victim’s account, prosecutors said. Miller also tried to open lines of credit using the elderly woman’s personal information.
"The victim’s daughter noticed irregularities and contacted police, prosecutors said.
“The very idea that Ms. Miller thought that an elderly woman and a woman who was living her final days in her home on hospice care would be easy targets is revolting,” State’s Atty. Robert Berlin said in a statement.
"Miller, of the 7300 block of South Wolcott, is due in court Sept. 29."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/west-chicago-winfield-warrenville/chi--20140918-story.html
Anonymous said...
Chances are pretty high of you going to jail if you had any connection with Daley...Luv it. Cant wait to spit on his grave after he's buried.
9/19/2014 07:17:00 AM
Hey Mr. Big Balls ... why don't you find him now and spit on him? He's not an elected official anymore.
That guy pissing standing next to you would be me.
9/19/2014 06:07:00 PM
The guy hanging off the tombstone dropping the deuce would be me.
You sir/madam definitely know how the game is played.
9/19/2014 05:43:00 PM
Yes, and further payment for keeping your convicted mouth shut is a job as a tradesman at McCormick Place
China town. A long history of mob run gambling and paying off commanders.
5 years probation? For $90,000? Sign me up, thats a deal.
Anonymous said...
Blago will be pardoned by Obama before he is out of office..... It's the pay off, shut your mouth, do your time, your family will be cared for, and I'll pardon you......just suck it up, consider it payment for going against the machine..... And I'm sure Blago,will,get a nice paying job when he's released....
9/19/2014 10:45:00 AM
You sir/madam definitely know how the game is played.
9/19/2014 05:43:00 PM
I would not complain one bit about a pardon for Blago if Bill Cozzi also gets a pardon. Fuck Blago, who cares. Bill Cozzi deserves a pardon. Of all the embezzlers, drug dealers and general miscreants that have gotten pardons, our own Bill Cozzi is very likely the only one who was tried and convicted twice for the same goddamn thing.
I'll sign a petition for Blago and drive to the jail and drive him home if only Bill can get that pardon letter too.
Anonymous said...
Chances are pretty high of you going to jail if you had any connection with Daley...Luv it. Cant wait to spit on his grave after he's buried.
9/19/2014 07:17:00 AM
Hey Mr. Big Balls ... why don't you find him now and spit on him? He's not an elected official anymore.
9/20/2014 06:34:00 AM
Hey, Patrick Daley, go find your own blog. Daley's are hated here.
Hey Mr. Big Balls ... why don't you find him now and spit on him? He's not an elected official anymore.
9/20/2014 06:34:00 AM
Elected official or not it is still battery. However, I would encourage everyone to spit on the ground every time they see him. As long as you are not on the CTA you are good. They took spitting off the books.
Had to be Fed' case for tax evasion, who was the Judge? Gene was nice guy in high school, Lindblom.
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