A jury of eight men and four women was selected in the trial of Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson.
A jury of eight men and four women was selected Monday in the trial of Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, the grandson and nephew of the city’s two longest-serving mayors who is the first member of his family’s political dynasty to face federal criminal charges.
Among those picked to serve on the jury: An IT professional, a customer service representative and part-time music teacher, a sales associate at a furniture store, a high school teacher, a physical educational instructor, a rail car cleaner, and a shipping manager at a dental center. Thompson’s attorney asked that the man be stricken for cause, but the judge declined. He wound up being cut as part of the defense’s peremptory challenges.
Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson arrives at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse for his federal trial on Feb. 7, 2022.Thompson, who has been on the City Council since 2015, was charged last April in a seven-count indictment with filing false tax returns and lying to Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. officials about $219,000 in loans he’d received from clout-heavy Washington Federal before it was shuttered in 2017.
The more serious charges of making false statements carry a maximum of 30 years in federal prison, while the tax counts are punishable by up to three years behind bars. The evidence is also expected to contain little if any mention of Thompson’s position as an elected official or his role in the Daley family. In fact, the indictment doesn’t include the Daley name at all, only his middle initial, and the judge has barred Thompson’s attorneys from showing the jury the alderman’s biography posted on the 11th Ward website.
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