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To: joseffy who wrote (34890)	6/18/2007 3:44:29 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 48461

He brings in ratings and ad dollars, so I guess he is 'protected' to a certain extent. This whole things remind me of this snippet of a story from the Chicago Trib on how things used to and still do work> John Kass Vrdolyak always a good judge of power Published May 11, 2007 The first time I met Fast Eddie Vrdolyak, I was a kid reporter on my first job for a small paper on the Southeast Side, assigned to cover Vrdolyak's big summer political bash. Every year, Vrdolyak, then the 10th Ward alderman and de facto mayor of Chicago, would open his home to politicians, tough guys with funny nicknames such as "Ox" and "Crazy Joe" and neighborhood people. It was the kind of party where bagmen would drink with iron workers and bankers. There were no lace curtain pretensions at these parties. They were for drinking and eating and politics, and I'd just been assigned the political beat. "Want a beer?" Vrdolyak asked me at the door. He knew that another reporter and I were investigating his role in kinky city scrap metal contracts that cost the city millions each year, but he turned on the charm. "How about a beer?" OK, I said. Off to the side, near large tubs of iced beer, there were a few tired-looking gray men of middle age, in white shirts, attentive, leaning along the wall like waiters with sore feet. He gave one a look, and the old guy's face perked up, the way a dog's face perks up when told to roll over. "Hey, judge," Vrdolyak told a fetcher. "Get the kid a beer. And make sure it's cold." "Right away, Eddie," said the judge, who would later be sentenced to 15 years after fixing murder cases for the Outfit. "Right away." Now Vrdolyak may be facing prison time if convicted on indictments announced Thursday by U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald, on bribery, wire and mail fraud charges related to an alleged North Side real estate kickback scheme.