CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a former prominent member of the Chicago City Council to report to prison at the end of the month to begin serving an 18-month sentence for tax evasion.
Concerns about Edward Vrdolyak’s health amid the COVID-19 pandemic had kept the 83-year-old out of prison following his sentencing last year. But on Monday a federal judge ordered Vrdolyak to self-surrender on Nov. 30 to a federal medical center in Minnesota, saying officials at the facility, which has 24-hour nursing care, could tend to Vrdolyak’s needs.
The former Chicago alderman pleaded guilty to seeking to help another lawyer to evade paying about $800,000 in income taxes.
