Article: Trial may show Vrdolyak plan for `kingpin' Bullock

The trial of state Rep. Larry Bullock is expected to produce testimony that Ald. Edward R. Vrdolyak (10th) hoped to set up Bullock and another Vrdolyak ally as minority contracting "kingpins," the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

Also likely to surface during the U.S. District Court proceedings are prominent names such as those of murdered contractor Richard Deprizio, Broadview Mayor John Oremus and Vrdolyak's brother, Victor, sources disclosed. 18-count indictment

Bullock was named Wednesday in an 18-count federal indictment charging extortion, mail fraud and racketeering. The indictment stemmed primarily from a series of Sun-Times stories last July. They included disclosures that ...

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