{"id":364425,"date":"2010-02-25T17:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a8d4afa3970b"},"modified":"2010-02-25T19:42:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T00:42:34","slug":"indicted-developer-wants-daley-to-testify-at-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364425","title":{"rendered":"Indicted developer wants Daley to testify at trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Todd Lighty and Robert Becker <\/em>at 4:21 p.m.; <strong>updated at 6:42 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A developer accused of bribing a Chicago alderman has subpoenaed Mayor Richard Daley to testify at his upcoming criminal trial, City Hall disclosed today.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<p>Daley was subpoenaed on Tuesday, according to a statement from Mara Georges, the city\u2019s corporation counsel.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cIf the court finds that the mayor\u2019s testimony is relevant and required, he will testify,\u201d Georges said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Why indicted developer Calvin Boender is seeking Daley\u2019s testimony is unknown, said Jenny Hoyle, a Law Department spokeswoman. Boender\u2019s lawyer, Robert Sanger, declined to comment today.\n<\/p>\n<p>Hoyle said Georges could not recall any other time Daley had been subpoenaed for a criminal trial.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cIt happens more frequently in civil cases \u2014 we don&#8217;t have a total number of times \u2014 but we usually are able to quash\u201d the subpoena, she said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Boender previously subpoenaed 10 current and former aldermen as witnesses for his defense. The city tried to block the aldermen\u2019s testimony claiming \u201clegislative immunity.\u201d Earlier this week, U.S. District Judge Robert M Dow Jr. ruled there was no legislative immunity protection for the aldermen in a criminal trial, but he was still considering whether their testimony is relevant.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Boender is scheduled to go on trial March 8 on federal corruption charges. Authorities say Boender bribed then-Ald. Isaac \u201cIke\u201d Carothers in exchange for Carothers\u2019 support of Boender\u2019s controversial residential and commercial development in the 29th Ward. Carothers pleaded guilty to bribery and tax charges earlier this month and agreed to testify against Boender.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The project, known as Galewood Yards, received City Council approval in 2006 over the objections of planning department staff, who argued the 50-acre parcel on the Far West Side should be preserved for industrial use.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The Tribune previously chronicled how Boender overrode opposition to the project after enlisting the support of Carothers and U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill. Gutierrez, who had just received a $200,000 loan from Boender for his own real estate investments, personally lobbied Daley.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Gutierrez, who has insisted that his support for Galewood Yards and the loan from the developer were unrelated, has not been charged with wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Todd Lighty and Robert Becker at 4:21 p.m.; updated at 6:42 p.m. A developer accused of bribing a Chicago alderman has subpoenaed Mayor Richard Daley to testify at his upcoming criminal trial, City Hall disclosed today. Daley was subpoenaed on Tuesday, according to a statement from Mara Georges, the city\u2019s corporation counsel.\u201cIf the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}