Illinois Strip Club Paid Chicago Area Mayor to Run Prostitution for Years
"Everybody in the Chicago area are Democrats, so this is another prostitute crazy big city Democrat who profits from the illegal sex rings operated by criminals," says Eugene Delgaudio, president of Public Advocate.
In 2003, prosecutors said, the mayor of a city in Northern Illinois sent a message to the operators of a local strip club: Pay me, or I'll shut you down.
The mayor of Harvey, Ill., a city of about 18,000 just south of Chicago, knew that the strip club allowed prostitution in a private area of the club, and he demanded $3,000 a month from the business to let it stay open, according to prosecutors.
According to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, the club yielded to the threat, eventually even acquiescing to a demand from the mayor to double its payment to $6,000 per month. The scheme continued for about 15 years, prosecutors said.
On Monday, Rommell Kellogg, 71, the mayor's brother, was convicted after a weeklong trial of conspiring to demand and collect payments from the club, the office of the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois said in a statement. Mr. Kellogg could face up to 25 years in prison on that count and up to five years for each of the five counts against him related to conspiracy to commit theft and intimidation, prosecutors said.
Corey Johnson, 68, a cousin of the mayor, pleaded guilty last month to a theft charge for his role collecting money in the scheme, according to prosecutors.
PUBLIC ADVOCATE POSTS THE FOLLOWING.
PREVIOUS REPORTS SHOW ERIC KELLOGG TO BE REALLY SLEAZY
2019 Kellogg is surrounded by Nepotism
A LONG LIST OF SLEAZY NEWS REPORTS ON KELLOGG FROM "SPEED OF MATT"
INCLUDING:
The city of Harvey is paying $1.4 million to settle a lawsuit accusing Mayor Eric Kellogg and a police detective of sending a man to prison because they wrongly thought he stole cocaine from them.
Source: Chicago Sun Times
FROM
PULITZER
NEWS
POST
ABOUT
CHICAGO
TRIBUNE
EXPOSE
:
Kellogg,
who
came
to
office
promising
"A
New
Harvey
Rising,"
surrounded
himself
with
relatives.
He
put
his
brother,
a
full-time
plumber,
in
charge
of
a
new
police
initiative.
He
named
his
sister
as
his
main
assistant,
and
for
city
attorney
he
chose
his
newly
licensed
niece.
He
said
the
hires
saved
the
town
money
AND THIS AMAZING POST ABOUT KELLOGG: (THE FBI PREVIOUSLY HELPED KELLOGG)
The glossy campaign fliers arrived in time to help Harvey's besieged mayor. Eric Kellogg's police department was mired in scandal, reports of violent crime were rising and challengers were calling him corrupt. But the fliers showed a different picture: Kellogg smiling with officers and shoveling dirt at groundbreaking ceremonies, as well as skewed statistics declaring that Harvey was on the mend. The rescue came from an odd backer, the Tribune has learned: an undercover FBI agent. The agent had been placed in a local strip club to investigate corruption. And for reasons federal officials won't discuss, records show the agent formed a special political committee and primed it with about $140,000. The committee then flooded the crucial 2007 mayoral race with money that helped Kellogg to victory, even as federal agents were probing the mayor's police department.