Former Chicago Ald. Ricardo Muñoz is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday for stealing money from his campaign fund and spending it on school tuition, trips, sporting events and other personal items.
to wire fraud and money laundering.
Among the personal items purchased with the funds were $169 for tickets to a Los Angeles Kings hockey game, $265 for a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in LA and another $160 spent on items at Lover’s Lane in West Dundee. Muñoz told other caucus members that there was substantially more money in the CPRC fund, prosecutors said. “Bottom line. Progressive Caucus has 11K,” Muñoz said in a chat message, according to the indictment.Muñoz’s attorney, Richard Kling, has argued that prison would serve little purpose, in part because the parade of Illinois elected officials who have served time before him has done nothing to curb political corruption.
“ was well aware of the list of infamous politicians preceding him who ran afoul of the law for disobeying their oath as public servants to line their own pockets,” Assistant U.S. Attorneys Morris Pasqual and Jared Hasten wrote in a court filing in January. “Unfortunately, what was past for other elected officials was prologue for .”
Though prosecutors did not identify the mentor in the filing, sources told the Tribune it was former Cook County Commissioner Joseph Mario Moreno, one of Munoz’s political mentors, who was sentenced in 2014 to 11 years in prison for various corrupt schemes.
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