Judgment Day Near for Fast Eddie
Federal prosecutors made their case against longtime political insider Ed “Fast Eddie” Vrdolyak this week - urging Judge Milton Shadur to put Eddie in jail for 41 months. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that, in the memo filed this week, federal prosecutors said Vrdolyak “lived a ’second, largely hidden life’ of crime.”
The statement summed up Vrdolyak’s actions in their conspiracy to split a $1.5 million kickback from the sale of a $15 million Gold Coast building belonging to the former Chicago Medical School, now the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.
Vrdolyak, of course, has long been in local headlines for his public political exploits. He has been active in Cook County politics on both sides of the aisle - even supporting the candidacy of Michael LaPidus, who ran as a Republican against Tony Peraica for Lyons Township GOP Committeeman in 2006. (If Vrdolyak is convicted, will LaPidus return his tainted $1,000 contribution?)
For now, it’s a wait-and-see game to learn how long Fast Eddie will have to live behind bars.
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