Heir to Chicago political dynasty brings his “false statement” charges to Supreme Court

Heir to Chicago political dynasty brings his “false statement” charges to Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear the case of a former Chicago alderman, who served four months in a federal prison for lying to federal financial regulators about loans he took out from a local bank and failed to pay. Patrick Daley Thompson, a member of the city’s most famous political dynasty, hopes that his case will be the latest in a series of cases in which the justices push back against what a majority of the court … Read the rest