State Sen. Thomas Cullerton’s long-awaited trial on federal embezzlement charges has been postponed.
State Sen. Thomas Cullerton’s long-awaited trial on federal embezzlement charges has been postponed due to a COVID-19 scheduling requirements that put defendants who are in custody at the front of the line.in an indictment alleging he pocketed almost $275,000 in salary and benefits from the Teamsters union despite doing little or no work.
But during a brief telephone hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said that date would have to be moved because another defendant who is in custody was set for trial on the same day. “That’s the world we’re in today,” Gettleman said. “Hopefully we’ll be out of it sooner rather than later.”
According to the indictment, then-Teamsters boss John Coli conspired with Cullerton in 2013 to give the newly elected senator a do-nothing job with the clout-heavy union. Over the next three years, the two ignored complaints from supervisors when Cullerton failed to even show up for work, according to the charges.
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