Former state Sen. Tom Cullerton will spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling funds from a labor union.
Former state Sen. Tom Cullerton will spend a year in prison after pleading guilty to embezzling funds from a labor union, becoming the latest Illinois lawmaker to be incarcerated after being convicted of corruption.Cullerton, 52, had asked U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman to sentence him to probation, while federal prosecutors asked that Cullerton spend 18 months behind bars.
Cullerton represented the Illinois Senate’s 23rd District from 2013 to 2022 after serving as Villa Park president and trustee. Cullerton acknowledged in his plea agreement that he “did little to no work” as an organizer for the Teamsters between March 2013 and February 2016 even as he was paid “nearly $250,000 in salary, benefits and reimbursed medical claims.”
The DuPage County Democrat was charged in 2019 with one count of conspiracy to embezzle from a labor union and employee benefit plans, 39 counts of embezzlement from a labor union and one count of making false statements. Tom Cullerton was the last member of his family’s political machine to hold elected office in Illinois. The Cullerton dynasty began in 1871, when Ed Cullerton — the son of one of the tens of thousands of Irish immigrants who settled in Chicago — was elected alderman of the 6th Ward on the South Side.The plea agreement Cullerton signed requires him to repay $248,828 to Teamsters Joint Council 25 and Teamsters Local Union 734 Health and Welfare Fund.
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