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Operation Greylord was an investigation conducted jointly by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the IRS Criminal Investigation Division, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the Chicago Police Department Internal Affairs Division and the Illinois State Police into corruption in the judiciary of Cook County, Illinois (the Chicago jurisdiction).
Chicago is a 2002 American musical black comedy crime film based on the 1975 stage musical, which in turn originated in the 1926 play. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. [3] The film stars an ensemble cast led by Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere.
A corporate scandal involves alleged or actual unethical behavior by people acting within or on behalf of a corporation. Many recent corporate collapses and scandals have involved some type of false or inappropriate accounting (see list at accounting scandals).
THE FINAL SCENE. 1993. A clearing in the woods near Chicago, sun shining, puffy clouds. Robert Downey Jr., twenty-seven years old, just a few months past his Best Actor Academy Award nomination ...
A Chicago ordinance required that before being permitted to screen any film in the city, exhibitors submit the film to the police commissioner's office and pay a license fee. The license to show the film could be denied if the film did not meet certain standards; this denial could be appealed to the mayor, whose decision would be final. [1]
A film about the scandal, Shattered Glass, was released in October 2003 and depicted a stylized view of Glass's rise and fall at The New Republic. Written and directed by Billy Ray , it stars Hayden Christensen as Glass, Peter Sarsgaard as Charles Lane , Hank Azaria as Michael Kelly and Steve Zahn as Adam Penenberg .
A list of cuts made to films by the Chicago Board of Censors. Published in the Exhibitors Herald in 1918. The Chicago Board of Censors was a film censorship committee based in Chicago that was founded in 1907 [1] [2] as the Police Censor Board, and operated until 1984. [3] [4] It was the first film censorship board in the United States.
In 1932, the Chicago school system was also in tatters and the banking industry went into a tailspin as many of the banks who had invested in the electric company "The Common Wealth Edison" busted during the Great Depression as the stock market crashed. [11] In May 1932, Al Capone began serving his 11-year sentence for tax evasion, in Atlanta, GA.