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...school in 1978, Turow became anassistant U.S. attorney in Chicago. He spent eightyears as a deputy prosecutor and was involved inOperation Greylord, a widespread crackdown topurge the Illinois legal system of corruption andfraud...
Holzer was the fourth Cook County circuit judgeto be convicted in the streak of investigations ofOperation Greylord...
...that point he was not really a writer anymore but a full-time lawyer. The eight years he spent as a deputy U.S. prosecutor included Operation Greylord, a widespread crackdown and sting operation that nabbed corrupt judges and other scoundrels in the Illinois legal system. Turow successfully prosecuted, among others, a state attorney general and a circuit-court judge...
...they going to say we will be in the confessional next?" He ultimately approved the bugging, but insisted the conversations could be recorded only when agents watching the judge's chambers had good reason to suspect that the visitor would offer a bribe. The case, known as Operation Greylord, resulted in the conviction of seven judges and 17 other public officials...
LeFevour became the fourth Chicago-area judge convicted as a result of a federal probe called Greylord. Last week was bad all over for the judiciary: in Mississippi, U.S. District Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr., charged with taking oil-well royalties as a bribe and with perjury, became the third sitting U.S. judge ever indicted for activity related to judicial duty...