http://www.mail.com/people/25990-george-ryan.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/25990-george-ryan.html http://www.mail.com/news/world/1901178-court-wont-hear-appeal-ex-ill-governor.html WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from ex-Illinois Gov. George Ryan over his corruption conviction. The justices on Tuesday turned away Ryan's appeal without comment. The former governor wanted them to reconsider his conviction based on a 2010 decision saying honest service fraud requires bribery and kickbacks. Ryan said the jury in... Tue, 19 Feb 2013 17:57:05 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1901178-court-wont-hear-appeal-ex-ill-governor.html 2013-02-19T17:57:05Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860394-patrick-fitzgerald-takes-socrates-mock-trial.html CHICAGO (AP) — Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors. On Thursday, the former top prosecutor got a crack at Socrates. Yes, that Socrates, the Greek philosopher. Fitzgerald, one of the nation's highest profile federal prosecutors until he recently entered private practice, represented Athens i... Fri, 01 Feb 2013 03:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1860394-patrick-fitzgerald-takes-socrates-mock-trial.html 2013-02-01T03:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1856110-ex-ill-governor-returns-prison-release.html CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan was released from prison before dawn Wednesday, stopping only briefly at a halfway house before he was allowed to travel home to serve the rest of his sentence for corruption. By midday, the 78-year-old was sitting in the living room of his spacious home in a leafy northern Illinois neighborhood in Kankakee,... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 23:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1856110-ex-ill-governor-returns-prison-release.html 2013-01-30T23:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855686-ill-gov-ryan-to-released-prison.html CHICAGO (AP) — George Ryan on Wednesday will become the latest former Illinois governor to go through a prison door. This time, he's headed out. Ryan is being released from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Ind., after serving five-plus years for corruption. He's expected to spend the first few weeks at a halfway house in Chicago and then return to his hom... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 07:18:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855686-ill-gov-ryan-to-released-prison.html 2013-01-30T07:18:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1854870-ex-ill-gov-ryan-faces-changed-world-prison.html CHICAGO (AP) — When former Illinois Gov. George Ryan steps out of prison on Wednesday after serving five-plus years for corruption, he will return to a life altered by personal tragedy and to a state altered by his and his successor's legacy of corruption. Ryan, who is headed to a halfway house in Chicago, will encounter an Illinois that has enacted refor... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:36:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1854870-ex-ill-gov-ryan-faces-changed-world-prison.html 2013-01-30T00:36:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855148-4-illinois-7-governors-went-to-prison.html Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan will be leaving prison and heading to a halfway house after serving more than five years for corruption. His departure from prison follows a rich, if ignominious, history in Illinois of ex-governors arriving in and departing from prison. Of Illinois' last seven governors, four have ended up going to prison. They are: —Rod ... Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:15:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1855148-4-illinois-7-governors-went-to-prison.html 2013-01-29T23:15:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1794558-chicagos-prosecutor-to-insider.html CHICAGO (AP) — The lanky, soft-spoken lawman from New York arrived in Chicago with a mandate to clean up corruption-plagued Illinois. And after a decade on the job, Patrick Fitzgerald had helped put two successive governors and a long procession of other public officials behind bars. Months after the consummate outsider resigned as head of the U.S. attorn... Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:07:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1794558-chicagos-prosecutor-to-insider.html 2013-01-01T17:07:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1774408-2-inmates-escape-high-rise-jail-chicago.html CHICAGO (AP) — Two bank robbers pulled off a daring escape from downtown Chicago's high-rise jail Tuesday by apparently scaling down about 20 stories using a makeshift rope tied to the bars in a cell window. Police helicopters and canine units swarmed the area, but not until more than three hours after Joseph "Jose" Banks and Kenneth Conley went unaccount... Wed, 19 Dec 2012 03:01:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1774408-2-inmates-escape-high-rise-jail-chicago.html 2012-12-19T03:01:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/us/1739006-john-wayne-gacys-blood-solve-murders.html CHICAGO (AP) — Detectives have long wondered what secrets serial killer John Wayne Gacy and other condemned murderers took to the grave when they were executed — particularly whether they had other unknown victims. Now, in a game of scientific catch-up, the Cook County Sheriff's Department is trying to find out by entering the killers' DNA profiles into a... Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/us/1739006-john-wayne-gacys-blood-solve-murders.html 2012-12-03T19:56:00Z