Former Ald. Ed Vrdolyak out of prison, moved to Downers Grove halfway house

CHICAGO (CBS) — Former Ald. Ed Vrdolyak has been launched from federal jail, soon after paying about 5 months of his 18-month sentence at a health-related prison in Minnesota, and is now completing his sentence at a midway household in Downers Grove.

Vrdolyak, 84, experienced been sentenced to 18 months in December 2020 for federal tax evasion prices associated to hundreds of thousands of pounds in payments he and a buddy gained from the state’s $9 billion settlement with tobacco corporations. But, because of to Vrydolyak’s age and well being and the pandemic, a federal judge held off on sending him to jail till previous November.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Vrdolyak is now in custody at a federal midway dwelling in Downers Grove. His sentence is scheduled to be completed in March 2023.

Vrdolyak pleaded responsible in 2019 to seeking to assist one more law firm to evade shelling out about $800,000 in money taxes. The plan was component of a strategy to siphon off thousands and thousands of pounds in lawful fees stemming from the tobacco settlement, even however he did no lawful work on the scenario.

Vrdolyak did a 10-thirty day period stint in federal prison in 2011 in a $1.5 million authentic estate kickback plan. In the mid-1980s, he led an aldermanic bloc staunchly opposed to Chicago’s first Black mayor, Harold Washington, and later targeted on his regulation exercise.