Mayor of Chicago suburb indicted
RIVERDALE, Ill. -- The mayor of south suburban Riverdale was indicted Thursday on perjury and obstruction of justice charges.Lawrence Jackson, 49, has been mayor of Riverdale for 10 years. He has been under investigation on allegations of receiving secret payments from a garbage and recycling company.As CBS 2's Tara Molina reported, Jackson was still the mayor of Riverdale as of Thursday. But there was no sign of him at his office.
They claimed Jackson refused to renew their contract so he could give special treatment to a different company, whose owner is accused of giving Jackson's own trucking company kickbacks. Federal prosecutors detail the 2021 deposition, where they say Jackson lied about his dealing with that firm - denying he knew the owners when investigators had evidence of prior history and text messages, and denying knowledge of business dealings.
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