Chicago Former State Rep. Democrat Luis Arroyo Sentenced for his Role in Bribery Scheme
According to the Capitol News Illinois, “Former state Rep. Luis Arroyo was sentenced this week to nearly five years in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving a state senator and one of Arroyo’s private lobbying clients who sought favorable legislation for the sweepstakes gambling industry.”
Arroyo’s indictment indicated that “in 2018 and 2019 he accepted thousands of dollars in bribes from gaming company, Collage LLC, in exchange for promoting legislation authorizing electronic sweepstakes machines, which look and operate much like slot machines.”
Arroyo was also accused of bribing a sitting state senator at the time, now known to be former Sen. Terry Link, a Lake County Democrat, for supporting that legislation. Arroyo and Link, who was wearing a wire, reportedly met at a Skokie restaurant in August 2019 where Arroyo handed Link a $2,500 check from Collage with a promise of additional monthly payments for as long as a year in exchange for Link’s support of the legislation, according to a Spectrum News report. Link was later charged and pleaded guilty to tax evasion. He was not immediately sentenced in exchange for his agreement to cooperate with the ongoing investigation. He resigned from the Senate in September 2020.
Arroyo’s crimes were exposed as a result of a wide-ranging probe in public corruption in the Chicago area conducted by U.S. Attorney John Lausch’s office and the FBI. We wonder: how much of Arroyo’s ill-gotten gains went to some of his political colleagues? This is just further confirmation that the Democrat party continues to solidify its position as the party of corruption.
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