Jury convicts Ill. official of lying about water - Houston Chronicle
CHICAGO (AP) — A one-time suburban Chicago official was convicted Monday of lying for decades about drawing water for residents from a well tainted by a cancer-causing chemical...Officials drew the tainted water until 2008 even after environmental officials warned in the mid-1980s that cancer-causing chemicals had oozed into the well, prosecutors have said.
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This trial has been going on for a while. She claims she is just the scapegoat, and that higher officials knew about the well water but continued mixing it with good Lake Michigan water in order to keep water rates down and enhance their own popularity.
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