Skip to content

Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

Judicial Watch, Inc. is a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, which promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law.

Because no one
is above the law!

Donate

Corruption Chronicles

Corrupt Illinois Gov. Must Report To Jail

Nearly two years after being convicted for starring in Illinois’ biggest political scandal, the state’s former governor will finally report to a federal prison next week to begin serving a 6 ½-year sentence for corruption.

Former Governor George Ryan has managed to remain free on bond while his attorney’s appeal his bribery and racketeering conviction and this week a federal appeals court ordered the disgraced Republican lawmaker to report to a correctional institution in Duluth, Minnesota.

The decision, read by Judge Diane Wood of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, went like this: “Although they undoubtedly would like to postpone the day of reckoning as long as they can, they have come to the end of the line as far as this court is concerned."

Ryan was convicted about 18 months ago of steering state contracts to friends, using tax dollars to run his campaign and covering up driver’s license bribery. The conviction capped a massive political scandal that featured lengthy investigations and trials and sent dozens to prison.

Ryan will become the third Illinois governor to serve jail time. Democrat Otto Kerner served seven months of a three-year sentence for a racetrack stock scandal and Democrat Dan Walker served 17 months of a seven-year sentence for bank fraud and perjury involving a financial institution that he owned.


Related

VP’s Failed Initiative to Curb Irregular Migration Gets Another $170 Mil as Numbers Surge

Corruption Chronicles | March 28, 2024
As enormous amounts of U.S. taxpayer dollars pour into Central America under Vice President Kamala Harris’s ill-fated initiative to curb illegal immigration, the Biden administrati...

Judicial Watch: Federal Appeals Court Hearing in Lawsuit Challenging Illinois Counting Ballots up to…

Press Releases | March 27, 2024
(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that an appellate oral argument is set for Thursday, March 28 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the case fil...

Judicial Watch Sues to Get 911 Call, Arrest Report of Laken Riley’s Murder

In The News | March 27, 2024
From Breitbart: Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton announced a Georgia Open Records Act lawsuit against the University of Georgia (UGA) Police Department to get the 911 call made ...