The boss of the Chicago FBI is set to retire later this month after nearly three years at the helm of the state’s biggest political corruption investigations in years.
Sandoval pleaded guilty to bribery conspiracy involving a red-light camera company executive and was cooperating with investigators when he died in December 2020 of COVID-19 complications. Austin is awaiting trial.
Other FBI investigations taken down in Buie’s three years here include ex-Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson, who was convicted of lying to federal banking regulators and tax evasion, and the mayors of suburban McCook, Crestwood, and Oakbrook Terrace, who were all caught on government wires as part of the same overarching bribery investigation.Chicago Tribune editors' top story picks, delivered to your inbox each afternoon.
as part of a sprawling investigation into lobbying practices by utility giant ComEd. Both Madigan and McClain have pleaded not guilty.told the Tribune“I take corruption very seriously,” Buie said in an interview then. “The FBI as well as myself are very aggressive when it comes to pursuing corruption. ... My stance is the American public has a right to be ensured that their public officials and law enforcement officials are working for them, not against them.
He also was the first Chicago-raised FBI boss here in at least the past two decades. He took over from Jeffrey Sallet, a native Bostonian who was reassigned to an executive post in the FBI’s Washington headquarters in 2019. Before Sallet, the FBI’s top Chicago position was occupied by appointees hailing from Minnesota, Indiana, Virginia, Michigan and Washington state.
Before taking over in Chicago, Buie’s FBI career included stops in Texas, Colorado, downstate Illinois, Washington and even London, where he served as a legal attache for the FBI in several international counterterrorism and anti-organized crime agencies.
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