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But Eddie Vrdolyak just got probation. And unlike Vrdolyak, who’d pleaded guilty to enriching himself through a “finder’s fee” he’d done nothing to earn in a juicy real estate deal, Patrick Slattery and three other city officials who went down with him hadn’t “been censured threee times by the Illinois Supreme Court for scamming legal clients and/or the courts,” Marin noted, and hadn’t “schemed to make money beyond keeping their city jobs.”
What about Mrs. Slattery’s daughter? Criminal courts judge Maura Slattery Boyle has been on the bench since 2000, and she must have a handle on how justice, and everything else, works in Cook County. According to a Sun-Times article written four years ago when Patrick Slattery was indicted, the Daleys and Slatterys were friends and neighbors in Bridgeport, and Mayor Daley’s brother John, a Cook County commissioner, backed Maura for judge. The Slatterys “were great friends of our family, very, very close,” John Daley told the Sun-Times then.
