JUST IN: A federal judge sentenced former Ald. Ricardo Muñoz (22nd Ward) to 13 months in prison after he pleaded guilty to charges that he drained $16,000 from the bank account of the City Council’s Progressive Reform Caucus.
Former Ald. Ricardo Muñoz, center, leaves the Everett M. Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on March 17, 2022.
The sentencing hearing was delayed for nearly six months by the surge of COVID-19 driven by the omicron variant.Muñoz and send a message to other politicians who may be tempted to engage in corrupt acts. The U.S. Attorney’s Office asked that Muñoz be sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Assistant U.S. Attorney Morris Pasqual called Muñoz the “latest in a long line of Chicago city aldermen convicted of using their public office for private gain” and asked the judge to incarcerate the former alderperson for one year and one day.
Muñoz is not guilty of “impulsive, one-off conduct” that broke the law, but carefully executed a plan to use funds raised by the Progressive Caucus for his personal benefit, Pasqual said. “Sometimes good people do foolish, thoughtless, stupid things,” Kling said, telling the judge it was punishment enough that Muñoz would be a convicted felon for the rest of his life.
Muñoz’s prison sentence for stealing funds from his closest allies on the Chicago City Council capped a political career spanning a quarter century that began when former Mayor Richard M. Daley appointed him to the Chicago City Council in 1993.
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