Prosecutors say businessman James Weiss ‘had two sitting politicians’ on his payroll as federal bribery trial begins – Chicago Tribune/MSN

Weiss’ attorney, Sheldon Sorosky, called it “1,000% false” that Weiss ever tried to bribe anybody, saying he agreed to pay then-state Rep. Luis Arroyo as a legitimate consultant. It was Arroyo’s colleague in the General Assembly, state Sen. Terry Link, who was secretly cooperating with the FBI in the hopes of a break on his tax evasion case, who introduced the idea of a bribe during a private discussion with Arroyo, Sorosky said in his opening remarks to the jury.