Joe Ferguson is the eldest son of a working-class single mom and a father he never knew who survived that rejection -- and the mean streets of Boston ...
Chicago Sun-Times | NATASHA KORECKI | Posted 10.05.2009 | Chicago
In nearly a decade with the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago, he took on defendants including media baron Conrad Black and successfully prosecuted on...
Julie Farby | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago
Damn you, Fitzgerald! What were you thinking stopping Gandhi Blagojevich from fulfilling his life's work helping to save the world?
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced new indictments against 10 suspected Mexican drug cartel leaders accused of using everyth...
Marcel Pacatte | Posted 09.11.2009 | Chicago
If Illinoisans want to put a stop to the culture of corruption, as they claim in poll after poll that they do, then they have to do something about it. It's not all up to Patrick Fitzgerald.
Chicago Sun-Times | Abdon M. Pallasch | Posted 09.07.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald could take it when he was demonized as a heartless Southern prosecutor in the movie that fictionalizes his real-life ...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 08.30.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago's top federal prosecutor went too far in saying last year that the conduct of then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich "would make Lincoln ro...
Peter Lance | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Patrick Fitzgerald, the most intimidating Federal prosecutor in America, sent me a letter threatening to sue for libel if a book I wrote, critical of his anti-terrorism track record, was published.
Emptywheel | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
You know how Obama's DOJ claims that we can't see Cheney's interview with Patrick Fitzgerald because it's privileged? Well, Dick Cheney's lawyer alrea...
Rory O'Connor | Posted 07.11.2009 | Media
Fitzgerald, who has too much time on his hands now that Scooter Libby has been freed and Rod Blagojevich indicted, spent much of the last year and a half attempting to kill Lance's new book.
Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media
Patrick Fitzgerald may be the most feared prosecutor in the country, but even as he's racked up headlines for big-name convictions (Scooter Libby) and...
Marcel Pacatte | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago
What the bunch in Springfield had better realize is that there are a lot more people lined up with reform than there are with the political status quo.
Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announced the indictments of Ald. Isaac "Ike" Carothers (29th) and real estate developer Calvin Boender on bribery an...
Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago alderman was indicted Thursday on federal fraud and bribery charges for allegedly accepting $40,000 in home improvements fro...
Marcel Pacatte | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
Burris knows exactly what he is doing. All these years I thought he was decent but dim. Turns out it was an act that I, and many others in Illinois, bought.
AP | Posted 06.22.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Don't look for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald's name on a ballot - ever. The high-profile prosecutor said on WLS radio Friday that ...
AP | Posted 05.28.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- Corruption-busting prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has agreed to stay on as U.S. attorney in Chicago, U.S. Sen. Richard Durbin said Mond...
Mother Jones | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics
The other day I ran into a Democratic member of the House of Representatives, and this person noted that he fancied the idea of appointing a special p...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.03.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — Ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to auction off President Barack Obama's vacant U.S. Senate seat marked the culmination of ...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 05.02.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — An indictment is expected as early as Thursday charging ousted Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich with presiding over state government awas...
AP | MIKE ROBINSON | Posted 04.09.2009 | Chicago
CHICAGO — A federal judge has turned down a request from impeached former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to have Chicago's top federal prosecutor...
Tribune | Posted 03.21.2009 | Politics
With all the controversy surrounding the Bush administration's firings of several U.S. attorneys, the question for the Obama administration became: Wh...
Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 03.21.2009 | Chicago
Sources said a federal investigation of Ald. Isaac Carothers (29th) is heating up, and it apparently goes far beyond Carothers' relationship with a Ch...
MSNBC | Pete Williams | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney in Chicago who brought criminal fraud charges against Rod Blagojevich, will be staying in his job in the Obama a...
Chicago Tribune | Steve Mills and Jeff Coen | Posted 03.07.2009 | Chicago
Federal prosecutors continue to investigate decades-old allegations that Chicago police routinely tortured murder suspects, focusing on a half-dozen d...
Chicago Sun-Times | FRAN SPIELMAN | Posted 11.23.2009 | Chicago