Extraditing the Key?

This could be interesting:

• Marco Morales, a contractor convicted in a City Hall corruption scandal more than a decade ago, has lost his final appeal against extradition from Mexico and could be sent back to the U.S. by next week, his attorney said today.

  Morales pleaded guilty in 1996 to bribery and mail fraud as part of the wide-ranging Operation Silver Shovel probe. In pleading guilty, Morales said he bribed Anthony Pucillo, a former high-ranking Transportation Department official under Mayor Richard Daley.

  Morales fled to Mexico in 1997 instead of reporting to prison as his plea agreement specified.

Morales returning to Chicago has been a dream of columnist John Kass for years now. Morales could be the key to unlocking tens, maybe tens of dozens of crooked deals. His pleas of being a simple retired contractor kind of fall flat when his son got a $40 million no-bid contract right after he fled to Mexico. It sounds more like a bought-and-paid-for conspiracy.

Clue for the feds - threaten him with 25-40 years in the pen and coming out a corpse and see how fast he cracks. These 18 month sentences are ridiculous and don't do a thing to instill fear of punishment in these assholes.