William Beavers gets to show off his "Hog Nuts" in the prison showers for 6 months.....

CROOK COUNTY, IL - William Beavers has plenty to say. Just not to U.S. Judge James Zagel.

“I didn’t want him to know anything about me,” Beavers said.

So facing 21 months behind bars, Beavers didn’t write the judge one letter. The former Chicago Police officer, 7th Ward alderman and Cook County commissioner didn’t beg for mercy.

The self-proclaimed “hog with the big nuts,” in fact, didn’t say one word to the judge before Zagel sentenced him Wednesday to six months in prison for being a tax cheat. Beavers didn’t “want to piss him off.”

“I don’t beg my woman,” the 78-year-old Beavers later told reporters. “So you know I wouldn’t go beg the judge, all right?”

The defiant Beavers flashed a smile in Zagel’s courtroom after the judge handed down the sentence. He denied doing so later — through a grin.

His punishment includes a $10,000 fine, $30,848 in restitution to the IRS and a year of supervised release during which he must perform 400 hours of community service. And he’ll have to give his gambling habit a rest.