Community activists & businessman Alderman Rey Colon could do the time value of money financial calculation & knew that the private parking meter lessor planned to jack up the on-street parking meter rates.

Did the other 45 aldermen & women who supported the private deal fear more incurring the wrath of Mayor Daley & the public employee unions which would have been forced to layoff thousands of precinct captains just a year before municiplan Election Day?

FBI agents must have evidence to suggest as much, shammara86. Such would create the entre & distinguish this case from one of simple, local jurisdiction.

I think the fact that he's in another state plays an important factor...

Clever, as always, Disaffected!

Encore, RichardGiraldi! Might Oprah pass this show on to one of her former frequent guests? The Sara Palin show? (Of course, the latter's ratings might pale by comparison.)