Here's a footnote to the last post.


Oak Park judge set Spilotro free
Anthony Spilotro might have caught a long prison sentence three years before his murder if not for a corrupt Circuit Court judge who lived in Oak Park. Judge Thomas J. Maloney was assigned to Tony Spilotro's murder trial after Spilotro was indicted in January 1983, for the 1962 torture murders of Elmwood Park burglars Billy McCarthy and James Miraglia.
Maloney summarily acquitted Spilotro after discounting the testimony of the government's chief witness, one Frank Cullotta.
Ten years later, Maloney earned the dubious distinction of being the only Illinois judge ever convicted of fixing a murder case-not Spilotro's-and numerous other felonies after he was caught up in the sweeping Operation Greylord investigation. He received a 15-year prison sentence and was fined $200,000.