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Article: Streeter Case Reveals the Code Words of Corruption // Didn't Know It, but He Gave Probe A Big Boost
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 21, 1996
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Even before he decided to wear a wire on his colleagues, Ald.
Allan Streeter was about the best friend an FBI agent could ever hope
to have. He just wasn't smart enough to know it.
"You never know when a room is bugged," Streeter advised an FBI
agent posing as a corrupt businessman during one of 250 conversations
recorded over a three-year period without Streeter's knowledge.
It was an oft-delivered piece of advice from the veteran 17th
Ward alderman, who was so busy giving instruction in the art of
Chicago corruption that he couldn't see the long arm of the law
wrapping around him.
Streeter's plea agreement, made public in federal court last
week, provided a rare inside view of the ...