FBI: Ex-employee alleges court clerk picked up cash payoffs at bagman's home
by Jason Meisner, Chicago Tribune
Aug 01, 2018
3 minutes
CHICAGO_A federal judge has ruled that the FBI had probable cause to search the cellphone of a longtime top aide to Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown as part of a sweeping probe into pay-to-play allegations of corruption in Brown's office.
In denying a motion to quash information seized from former associate clerk Beena Patel's phone, U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis revealed new details from a sealed 2015 FBI search warrant application,
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