‘Pick ur 10 friends and make them millionaires’: Feds say text from Ald. Ricardo Muñoz shows blueprint of Chicago corruption – Chicago Tribune*

“Pick ur 10 friends and make them millionaires and they will take care of u legally,” the mentor told Muñoz, according to a copy of the text revealed by prosecutors in a court filing Friday. It turned out, though, Muñoz unidentified mentor failed to follow his own advice: “That wise man was indicted 15 years later for tax evasion,” Muñoz wrote in the text. “He didn’t take illegal money he just failed to pay taxes on campaign cash used for gambling.”