A judge Thursday denied a bid by former Ald. Edward Vrdolyak to be released early from prison, saying he already got a break due to age and health.
Former Chicago Ald. Edward Vrdolyak departs the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse in Chicago on March 7, 2019 with his lawyer Michael Monico, right foreground, after he pleaded guilty to a federal tax evasion charge stemming from millions of dollars in payments he received from the state's massive settlement with tobacco companies in the 1990s.
Prosecutors objected, saying that Vrdolyak was receiving top-notch medical care in prison and that efforts to win release, which began with a request to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons the day after he reported, showed a “remarkable display of white collar criminal privilege.” “True, is older and perhaps more vulnerable than he was at the time of sentencing, but doctors forecast those predictable developments and the court considered them in imposing a below-guidelines sentence,” Dow said.
“So stark has it been that Mr. Vrdolyak’s ‘grasp of reality seems to have been severed,’” the motion stated, citing a report from a medical expert who examined the former alderman. In asking for prison time, prosecutors said Vrdolyak had been paid at least $12 million in fees stemming from the settlement even though he did no legal work on the case and hid his involvement from the Illinois attorney general.
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