Despite vowing for months that he would speak directly to jurors, an influential Cook County commissioner told a federal judge on Wednesday he would not be taking the stand at his tax-evasion trial.
Federal prosecutors have rested their tax-evasion case against a Cook County commissioner accused of diverting money from his campaign coffers and using it on personal items.
An Illinois House committee agrees the city should be able to close liquor stores for 30 days if illegal activity is reported. The industry vows to fight the bill’s progress.
An IRS agent testifying in William Beavers’ federal tax evasion trial Tuesday said he couldn’t find any record Beavers intended to repay money he took from his campaign accounts.
Jurors endured hours of dry testimony Monday morning, as prosecutors led Beavers’ accountant through a line-by-line explanation of four years’ worth of tax returns and earnings documents.
