Poll Result: Readers Say Feds Should Prosecute Danny Solis For Bribery

CHICAGO — Former alderman turned FBI mole, Danny Solis, was offered an unprecedented deferred prosecution deal that calls for dropping a felony bribery charge against him.

City Hall lawyers have until Wednesday to make good on their intention to submit a victim impact statement on behalf of Chicagoans that will argue Solis shouldn't get away without being convicted of a felony.

"No one is above the law and Chicago residents expect that their elected officials will be held accountable," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said last week after ordering city attorneys to intervene in Solis's criminal case.

Patch polled readers asking whether the feds should have cut a deal to drop felony bribery charges against Solis in exchange for wearing a wire that led to the indictments of former House Speaker Michael Madigan and Ald. Edward Burke.

Nearly 58 percent of folks who replied agreed with Lightfoot's position that Solis shouldn't be allowed to get off without charges after being implicated for taking a bribe in exchange for pushing a zoning change through the City Council when he was chairman of the zoning committee.

A court hearing on Solis's criminal case is scheduled for Thursday.