WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear former Illinois Governor George Ryan's appeal of his conviction and 6-1/2-year prison sentence for racketeering, fraud and other crimes involving kickbacks for state contracts and property leases.Full story
Patrick Fitzgerald has prosecuted mobsters, terrorists, a White House aide and two Illinois governors. Full story
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. Full story
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan gives a statement after being found guilty in his corruption trial in the federal court in Chicago in this April 17, 2006 file photo. REUTERS/Stephen J. Carrera/Files
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, right, arrives at a halfway house in Chicago on Wednesday, after serving five-plus years in federal prison on corruption charges. The 78-year-old Ryan began serving his 6 1/2-year sentence in November 2007 in Oxford, Wis., and was released from another prison in Ter
