Feds Secretly Taped Ill. Gov. George Ryan
By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Sat Jan 04, 2003 at 04:33:35 PM EST
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Posted on Sat Jan 04, 2003 at 04:33:35 PM EST
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The Chicago Tribune has learned that the FBI used a cooperating individual to secretly tape a phone call to Illinois Governor George Ryan:
"Federal investigators secretly tape-recorded a telephone call of Gov. George Ryan's from a close confidant last April as part of the Operation Safe Road probe, the Tribune has learned."
"According to a source close to the investigation, Donald Udstuen, once part of Ryan's "kitchen cabinet" of prominent advisers, agreed to make the monitored call to the governor on the same day Udstuen began to work undercover for federal authorities."
Nothing incriminating was said during the call. Still, to use an undercover ploy to tape a Governor, any Governor, is not a routine matter.
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