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Article: EDITORIAL: Protecting Patrick Fitzgerald.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- August 22, 2005
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Aug. 22--All summer long the question has brushed against the polished marble in Chicago's corridors of power. It's often whispered because, with so many informants now eager to help federal prosecutors build cases against public corruption here, some people don't want to look overly interested in the answer. So the question just keeps floating along: Will some powerful someone in the Republican Party persuade the White House to promote, fire or otherwise remove Patrick Fitzgerald, the aggressive U.S. attorney in Chicago?
Fitzgerald has made many enemies over the years: Gambino family mobsters, international terrorists, rugby players who underestimate a ...