Testimony on Old Post Office continues

Federal prosecutors appear to be wrapping up the most significant phase of their corruption case against ex-Ald. Ed Burke: the long saga of the Old Post Office redevelopment.

Jurors on Friday are expected to hear a few more recordings related to Burke’s alleged scheme to pressure the building’s developers to become clients of his private tax-law firm.

Some of the strongest evidence against Burke has already been aired. Jurors have heard multiple secretly recorded conversations in which Burke says he has no incentive to pull strings for the developers if they won’t give his firm their business.

They also heard in Burke’s own voice one of the most infamous lines in Chicago political history: “So did we land the, uh, the tuna?”

The “tuna” was tax business from Post Office developers – business Burke chased for months. Prosecutors have played dozens of wiretapped phone calls as well as video recorded by then-Ald. Daniel Solis, who was working undercover as an FBI mole.

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