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Ex-Chicago official granted a new trial

Posted: December 23, 2009 at 4:54 a.m.

A federal judge threw out the fraud conviction of Chicago’s former streets and sanitation chief Tuesday and granted him a new trial on charges of illegally rewarding political campaign workers with city jobs.

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