Ex-state Sen. Thomas Cullerton could face a prison sentence for pocketing more than a quarter of a million dollars in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work.
A seventh former legislator, state Rep. Annazette Collins,to charges she lied on her personal income taxes and failed to file tax returns for her lobbying and consulting firm.
“Coli knew it was wrong to pay Cullerton because he was a ghost payroller,” assistant U.S. attorneys Amarjeet Bhachu and Erika Csicsila wrote. “Only when Coli became concerned that the Independent Review Board, an investigative body within the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, would find out Cullerton was a ghost payroller, did he give the order for Cullerton to be fired.
“He will forever bear the stigma, public embarrassment, and financial and other costs associated with this felony conviction,” attorney Daniel Collins wrote. “His decision not to resign right then and there will haunt him the rest of his life,” Collins wrote.
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