“Defense attorneys for a Chicago businessman accused of illegal lobbying want to bring out at his trial next week allegations that then-Sen. Roland Burris (D-IL) offered to try to get U.S. military contracts for a business in return for a job as a $250,000-a-year financial consultant after he left office,” the Chicago Sun Times reports.
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