The indictment Thursday of William Beavers adds a new name to a long list: Chicago politicians charged with crimes. Beavers, a Cook County commissioner, is accused of tax evasion and other offenses from January 2006 to about April 2011. For part of that time, he was on the Chicago City Council. Chicago aldermen have been frequent law-enforcement targets, with 29 convicted since 1972.
Fred Hubbard, 2nd
Pleaded guilty in 1972 to embezzling nearly $100,000 from a federally funded jobs program
Joseph Jambrone, 28th
Convicted in 1973 of accepting payoffs of $4,000 and $1,000 to support zoning changes
Casimir Staszcuk, 13th
Convicted in 1973 of accepting three bribes totaling $9,000 to back zoning changes
Joseph Potempa, 23rd
Pleaded guilty in 1973 to accepting $3,000 for zoning changes and failing to report $9,000 on income-tax returns
Frank Kuta, 23rd
Preceded Potempa; convicted in 1974 of accepting a $1,500 bribe on a zoning case
Thomas Keane, 31st
Convicted in 1974 of fraud and conspiracy for aiding a scheme to buy and sell tax-delinquent property at inflated prices
Paul Wigoda, 49th
Convicted in 1974 of taking a $50,000 bribe in exchange for his support for a zoning change in a nearby ward
Donald Swinarski, 12th
Pleaded guilty in 1975 to accepting $7,800 in three bribes to approve zoning changes in his ward
Edward Scholl, 41st
Pleaded guilty in 1975 to taking $6,850 in bribes from a contractor to permit zoning changes in his ward
Stanley Zydlo, 26th
Pleaded guilty in 1980 to paying $1,000 to alter two relatives’ test results for a Fire Department physical entrance exam
William Carothers, 28th
Convicted in 1983 of extorting as much as $32,500 from Bethany Hospital builders to remodel his ward office
Tyrone Kenner, 3rd
Convicted in 1983 of accepting $15,500 to help more than a dozen people become sheriff’s deputies or electricians
Louis Farina, 36th
Convicted in 1983 of conspiring to extort $7,000 from contractors to help them obtain city building permits
Clifford Kelley, 20th
Pleaded guilty in 1987 to charges that he accepted $36,500 for lucrative city work
Wallace Davis Jr., 27th
Convicted in 1987 of accepting a $5,000 bribe, forcing his niece to pay $11,000 in kickbacks and extorting $3,000
Chester Kuta, 31st
Pleaded guilty in 1987 to income tax evasion, fraud and civil rights violation
Perry Hutchinson, 9th
Convicted in 1988 in an insurance-fraud scheme. Then, in 1989, he pleaded guilty to taking $42,200 from an FBI mole
Marian Humes, 8th
Pleaded guilty in 1989 to taking $6,000 from Hutchinson to help contractors and $5,000 from an FBI mole
Fred Roti, 1st
Convicted in 1993 of taking $10,000 to influence a court case and $7,500 to support a ward zoning change
Ambrosio Medrano, 25th
Pleaded guilty in 1996 to taking $31,000 from a mole and placing two associates in no-work jobs on a city committee
Allan Streeter, 17th
Pleaded guilty in 1996 to taking $37,020 in bribes from a government mole and an undercover FBI agent.
Joseph Martinez, 31st
Convicted in 1997 of accepting pay for three no-work, ghost-payroll jobs at City Hall
Jesse Evans, 21st
Sentenced in 1997 for accepting $7,300 in bribes, extorting $10,000 and a new basement floor
John Madrzyk, 13th
Convicted in 1998 of paying $33,764 to his daughter-in-law, who didn’t work for Madrzyk’s committee
Lawrence Bloom, 5th
Pleaded guilty in 1998 to filing a false income tax return and admitted pocketing $14,000 from an FBI mole
Virgil Jones, 15th
Convicted in 1998 of pocketing two payoffs totaling $7,000
Percy Giles, 37th
Convicted in 1999 of pocketing $10,000 in bribes from a government mole and extorting an additional $81,200
Arenda Troutman, 20th
Pleaded guilty in 2008 to fraud after admitting she solicited donations from developers seeking to do business
Isaac “Ike” Carothers, 29th
Pleaded guilty in 2010 to bribery and tax charges in a zoning case. His alderman father, William, was convicted 27 years earlier.
