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Previous 22nd Ward Ald. Ricardo Munoz argued not blameworthy Wednesday to government charges claiming he went through cash from a political asset he controlled on sports tickets, travel, suppers and "individual things" at a rural Lover's Lane. 

Munoz, 56, who resigned in 2019, was accused a week ago of 15 tallies of wire extortion and one check of illegal tax avoidance. The most genuine allegations convey as long as 20 years in jail. 

His arraignment Thursday before U.S. Justice Judge David Weisman was held by phone meeting. After the appointed authority noted Munoz was a representative for a "time of years," he inquired as to whether he had any clinical issues that would influence his capacity to comprehend the procedures. 

Munoz began to reply, "I have gone through recovery for liquor utilization … " under the steady gaze of his legal counselor, Richard Kling cut him off. 

Munoz was delivered on a recognizance bond and requested to have no contact with any observers for the situation. A status hearing was set for June 4. 

Previous Ald. Ricardo Munoz, 22nd, leaves the Circuit Court of Cook County in Chicago on Jan. 3, 2019. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune) 

As indicated by the charges, Munoz took from a political activity advisory group framed by the Chicago Progressive Reform Caucus, where he filled in as director and played out the obligations of its financier. 

He purportedly took the cash by making direct money withdrawals from the PAC and furthermore moving a few assets from CPRC to another political asset he controlled — Citizens for Munoz — and afterward into his own financial records, the charges expressed. 

Among the unapproved uses: $169 for passes to a Los Angeles Kings hockey game, $265 for a room at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and another $160 spent on things at Lover's Lane in West Dundee, the charges affirmed. 

He likewise utilized the cash to purchase adornments, sleeve fasteners, ladies' apparel, three Apple iPhones and frill, ethereal touring outings and skydiving journeys, the prosecution asserted. 

In October 2016, Munoz moved more than $16,000 from the political asset to his own record, which he used to pay schooling cost for a unidentified individual, the arraignment expressed. 

Munoz attempted to shroud the misrepresentation by deceiving the Illinois State Board of Elections, staff individuals and project workers of the CPRC, demanding that specific uses were authentic and others didn't should be organized on D-2 mission explanations, the prosecution expressed. 

At a certain point, Munoz remove others' admittance to the asset's records to attempt to cover the low adjusts, raising caution, as per the charges. In March 2019, Individual B, another individual from the gathering, revealed to Munoz the council was meeting shortly and "I need to realize what to advise them," as indicated by the charges. 토토사이트

Munoz purportedly answered in a visit message, "Main concern. Reformist Caucus has 11K," as indicated by the charges. At that point, Munoz realized the equilibrium was "significantly not exactly that sum," the charges expressed. 

Munoz was delegated council member by then-Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1993. Munoz, at one point the longest-tenured Latino magistrate, declared his retirement from the City Council in July 2018 and said he wouldn't look for re-appointment.