Former Streets & San head Al Sanchez has been found guilty on four of seven counts of mail fraud. The verdict was read announced around 2:20 p.m. and details are still forthcoming. Aaron Delvalle, Sanchez's former assistant, was found guilty of perjury for lying to a grand jury about the job rigging. [Sun-Times, CBN] more ›

The federal corruption trial against former Chicago Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez continued with prosecutors calling yet another city worker to the stand, and virtually forcing former HDO worker Aaron DelValle to testify. more ›

The federal corruption trial of Al Sanchez continued yesterday, as prosecutors called Denise Alcantar to the witness stand. Alcantar, who drives a city recycling truck , testified that she was encouraged by other city workers she knew to get involved in the HDO as a means to a city job. When she submitted her application, she turned it in not at City Hall, but at Shy Ways, a Southwest side biker bar where she went to coordinate with HDO leaders about campaign activities she worked on. When she applied for the job, her only prior experience was working as a customer service representative in the private sector, and as an office worker for state Rep. Edward Acevedo, who also had benefited from the HDO's help. Along with illustrating their charges that Sanchez ran a corrupt hiring scheme predicated on political loyalty, prosecutors also sought to demonstrate the reckless and dangerous outcome of patronage hiring. more ›