Saturday, March 24, 2012
Politicians - Illinois State Representative Derrick Smith
Here's another elected official going down...
Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff report at Chicago's local ABC website:
"State Rep. Derrick Smith is just in his first year of office, but federal authorities on Tuesday afternoon said the Chicago democrat had already learned Illinois' notorious pay-to-play.
Smith was arrested Tuesday on a federal bribery charge after allegedly accepting a $7,000 cash bribe in exchange for an official letter of support for a daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant. 'I don't want no trace of it,' Smith allegedly said of the bribe money he demanded in cash. He is a college graduate with a master's degree from DePaul University."
