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7. Lausch is currently involved in three high-profile corruption cases

Reply to NewJeffCT (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 10, 2021, 09:33 AM

Feb 2021

Duckworth and Durbin want him kept on until these cases are concluded. "It would be better to finish these three cases and any related cases that are in the pipeline because we would know we have the same team continuing the prosecution." These cases include a bribery cases in which former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan and former President of the Chicago City Council, among others, are implicated.

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