Ex-Streets and Sanitation boss Sanchez gets 2 1/2 years in prison
February 4, 2011
By NATASHA KORECKI Federal Courts Reporter
The federal sentencing hearing Thursday of ex-Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez meant 2 1/2-years in prison for the onetime city official.
It prompted opinions over this week’s disaster on Lake Shore Drive as well as a hiring scheme that has gone on in the city for decades.
But it also did something else.
It ended a seven-year run of federal prosecutions into city hall that began with the Hired Truck scandal in 2004.
Sanchez was the very last defendant to be prosecuted as part of a hiring scandal that grew out of the Hired Truck probe. Prosecutions were prompted by a Chicago Sun-Times investigation in 2004.
