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| Text on Button | Finley |
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| Additional Information | Morgan M. Finley was a Democrat politician in Chicago, born on August 31, 1925 and active from 1959 to 1989. He served in the Illinois Senate from 1959 to 1967. In 1971, Finley was appointed to Chicago’s Zoning Board of Appeals. In late 1974, he was appointed clerk of the Cook County Circuit Court, amid charges of conspiracy, tax eviction and accepting payoffs by his predecessor. Unfortunately for Finley, he got caught in 1989 accepting bribe money offered by federal “moles” in the Operation Incubator sting. He was sentenced to ten years and only served less than four. Judge Ilana D. Rovner called him “a monument to corruption.” He was released in 1993 and died in 2016, away from politics. |
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Steinberg, N. (September 22, 2016). Politician Morgan Finley, ‘a monument to corruption,’ has died. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved from https://chicago.suntimes.com/2016/9/22/18364946/politician-morgan-finley-a-monument-to-corruption-has-died Judge Sentences Finley to 19 Years, Call Him Corrupt. (August 26, 1989; Updated August 8, 2021). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/08/26/judge-sentences-finley-to-10-years-calls-him-corrupt/ |
| Catalog ID | PO1249 |