CHICAGO – Democratic state Sen. Emil Jones III told a federal jury in his bribery trial Thursday that the FBI asked him to wire up on the CEO of Roseland Community Hospital as part of a cooperation bid that could keep Jones from being charged.
Jones, who is on the witness stand for a third day, made the disclosure during direct examination by his attorney, Victor Henderson, who was asking about several meetings Jones had with federal investigators after he was first confronted in September 2019.
Jones said that in early 2020, the feds asked him and his then-attorney to come in and give a proffer-protected statement, which is a often prelude to cooperation and means he could not be charged based on anything he said…