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Illinois Assistant Majority Leader arrested on federal bribery charge

OCTOBER 29, 2019 | by Austin Berg | ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE

Illinois state Rep. Luis Arroyo, D-Chicago, had just finished lunch with a state senator on an August afternoon in Highland Park. They stepped outside to talk. ‘Let’s be clear,’ Arroyo allegedly told the state senator. ‘My word is my bond and my, my reputation.’ Federal agents were listening to Arroyo. … Illinoisans shouldn’t have to wait on federal raids to curb corruption.

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