CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - Chicago Alderman Byron Sighcho-Lopez asked a federal judge on Wednesday to hold his predecessor Daniel Solis accountable for his alleged corruption crimes.
The alderman wrote a letter to Judge Andrea Wood, essentially a victim impact statement, asking that she consider what he calls Solis’s “rampant and unchecked corruption.”
Solis pleaded not guilty to bribery as part of a deferred prosecution after secretly wearing a wire for years as the feds built corruption cases against Alderman Ed Burke and then Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan.
The Tribune reported Sigcho-Lopez asked for “scaled and appropriate penalties.”
The city has intervened attempted to intervene as well as a potential victim.
“Solis victimized the residents of his ward and residents in the entire city, all of whom were deprived of the integrity and honesty that should be sacrosanct with all public officials,” Mayor Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, said.
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