A newly-released court document is providing an inside look at the secret deal prosecutors made with former Chicago Alderman Danny Solis.
The new documents are part of a deferred prosecution agreement, or DPA, that federal prosecutors gave to Solis in return for his cooperation. And his cooperation led to two of the biggest political corruption indictments that feds have brought in recent years.
Solis wore a wire for federal investigators and helped them build a case against fellow alderman Ed Burke. His cooperation also led toFederal court documents filed Tuesday show that a deferred prosecution agreement has been in place with Solis since December 2018, less than a month after the feds raided Burke's alderman offices.
In the DPA, Solis admitted soliciting and later receiving $15,000 in campaign contributions from three developers in 2015. In exchange, Solis gave his support to a zoning change the developers were seeking. "If he testifies truthfully, cooperates completely and doesn't commit any crimes during the pendency of this case, then he doesn't have to deal with this anymore, he's not going to go to prison, it just will go away," Cramer said.
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