In a sign of our distraction, the feds indicted not one but two aldermen last Friday and hardly anyone around here batted an eye.
Thompson says he’s innocent of all charges. But I can’t wait to hear him explain the interest-deduction thing.
That is, Muñoz allegedly stole thousands from the accounts of the City Council’s Progressive Caucus—which he then chaired—and used the cash to buy, among other things, items from Lover’s Lane. A sex-toy operation.
Don’t say we’re not tolerant in Chicago.
Here’s a fun-filled First Tuesdays fact—Muñoz and Solis were guests on the same night!
This occurred when he was out on bond for an outstanding 2019 felony case in which he allegedly “loaned his 2016 Audi A6 to a woman he had previously dated and then filed a false police report when she took the car, saying that the car was stolen.”