Monday, June 30, 2008

McGee Tried to Intimidate Witnesses From Jail

This surprises nobody.

Newly unsealed federal court documents say Michael McGee told a fellow jail inmate the $15,000 the former alderman illegally wired to New York to book a rap band were drug proceeds from the Vice Lords street gang.

They also show McGee was trying get supporters on the jury in hopes of a hung jury and that the former alderman had close contact from jail with the the Bishop Sedgwick Daniels, who raised $80,000 for his defense and read his jailhouse letters at church.

The new revelations come from more than 100 pages of documents that were sealed over the past two months leading up to McGee’s trial. A jury last week convicted McGee on all nine counts of extortion, attempted extortion, bribery and failing to file a report on a $15,000 wire transaction.

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Several of the documents, which quoted McGee’s taped calls from jail, were filed in response to repeated motions by McGee to get out of jail. McGee was ordered held without bond last summer after prosecutors showed he was trying to contact and intimidate witnesses from behind bars.

For all of those who were insisting that McGee be released, do you see now why he was being held?

(2) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1713 hrs
Law + Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Sorry - anyone who believed that McGee should have been released - is going to believe that this is all made up.

    How many other alderman or city officials are in bed with the gangs? They obviously got to a height challenged former police chief…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on June 30, 2008 at 1817 hrs


  2. The Vice Lords are patrons of the arts.  Who knew?

    Posted by HeatherRadish on July 01, 2008 at 1058 hrs


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