Article: Court: Ex-alderman can get wife's pension City to appeal ruling for Streeter, convicted in '96

Just because he was found guilty of accepting bribes doesn't mean former city Ald. Allan Streeter can't collect his late wife's pension, the Illinois Appellate Court has ruled.

In a 2-1 decision handed down last Friday, the court upheld a lower court's ruling that Streeter was eligible to receive his wife's monthly annuity payments. Dolores Streeter, a city employee for 28 years, died in 1998 and designated Streeter as her beneficiary.

Streeter's attorney, Steven Richards, said Tuesday that the city pension fund's denial of benefits to Streeter had been "politically motivated."

The Municipal Employees Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago

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