A federal judge said Tuesday that he is preparing to issue a nearly 200-page ruling in the corruption case against Ald. Edward Burke that could determine whether federal prosecutors can use thousands of hours of the powerful politician’s telephone conversations.During a brief hearing for Burke and his co-defendants, longtime aide Peter Andrews and Portage Park businessman Charles Cui, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Dow said that he expected to make that ruling public within a week.
In this courtroom sketch, Ald. Ed Burke, left, appears before U.S. Federal Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole with his attorneys on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Cui is accused of hiring Burke’s law firm in exchange for the alderperson’s help obtaining a sign permit and city subsidy for the redevelopment of a Portage Park bank into shops.
During a February hearing, Burke’s attorneys argued that those wiretaps were obtained without probable cause and should be excluded from evidence. Ortiz defeated former state Rep. Dan Burke, the alderperson’s brother, in March 2018, and could run for the 14th Ward seat on the City Council in the next aldermanic election, scheduled for February 2023.
Burke’s attorneys accused the government of setting him up with the help of Solis and improperly listening to his phone calls.
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