78 year old Bill Beavers receives his federal prison sentence today - Just another Chicago elected official going to CLUB FED

Former Cook County Commissioner William Beavers is scheduled to be sentenced this morning for failing to pay taxes on tens of thousands of dollars he took out of his campaign fund and used for gambling and other personal expenses. 

Beavers, 78, a stalwart of the Cook County Democratic Party and longtime champion of machine politics, was convicted by a federal jury earlier this year on four counts of tax evasion. 

In recommending a sentence of 21 months in prison, prosecutors in a recent court filing portrayed the outspoken former police officer and alderman as someone who abused the trust placed in him as a public official despite “maintaining a front row seat for the long and sordid history of public corruption in Chicago and Illinois.”

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