Feds allege state Rep. Luis Arroyo caught on undercover recording paying $2,500 bribe. ‘This is the jackpot.’ – Chicago Tribune

The 13-page criminal complaint, made public Monday, revealed that the state senator allegedly targeted by Arroyo first began cooperating with the FBI in 2016 but was terminated as a confidential source after it was revealed he had filed false income tax returns. The senator later agreed to cooperate with the FBI again in the hopes of winning a break at sentencing on expected tax fraud charges, according to the complaint.

The senator was not named in the complaint, but a source identified him as Terry Link, 72, a state senator from Vernon Hills since 1997. Speaking to a reporter outside his Capitol office Monday, Link flatly denied he was “CW-1” — the cooperating witness mentioned in the complaint.