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Five men sentenced in 1.2 million bribery case in Chicago
U S District Judge John Grady sentenced Frederic B. Ingram owner of Ingram Corp and four others to prison and fines for a scheme paying Chicago officials to divert sludge contracts to downstate Fulton County. Sentences ranged from three to ten years with fines up to eighty thousand dollars. Witnessed by testimony of William J. Benton about a 700000 payoff spree. Others acquitted included E Bronson Ingram Bart Lyram and Chester Majewski.
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Chicago
U.S. District Court
New Orleans
John,.b. Grady
Frederic B. Ingram
Chicago Metropolitan Sanitary District
Fulton County
Grady
Ingram
Valentine Jantek
Robert F. MacPartlin
Franklin T. Weber
Statehouse
Springfield
Edwin T. Bull
William J. Benton
E. Bronson Ingram
Bart T. Ly- Ram
Sanitary District
Chester P. Majewski