POSNER, Circuit Judge.
After a seven-week trial, a jury convicted Richard LeFevour, a former state court judge in Chicago, of having violated the "RICO" statute (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations), 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d), committed mail fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1341, and filed false income tax returns, 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1), during a 14-year career of bribe taking. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Long the chief judge of the Cook County...
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