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| Prison expert acquitted |
| By Chicago Tribune |
| Published: 05/08/2008 |
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ILLINOIS - A federal judge on Wednesday acquitted Michael J. Mahoney, a nationally known corrections expert, on charges that he schemed to bribe Illinois' former top prison official to win lucrative state contracts for his lobbying clients. After the verdict was announced, Mahoney exhaled sharply, wiped tears from his eyes and began hugging more than a dozen family members and supporters who attended the bench trial in the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse. "It's just an incredible relief for this ordeal to be over," Mahoney, former head of the John Howard Association, a Chicago-based prison watchdog group, said later in a courthouse hallway. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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