Seifullah Muhammad, a federal juror and ex-con, will be sentenced for soliciting a bribe and obstructing justice to influence the outcome of a civil case. Muhammad, 31, of the city’s South Side, faces up to 6 years in prison when he appears before U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen. It took a jury only an hour before convicting him in January of the charges. Last August, Muhammad was picked to sit as juror in a $1.8 million product-liability case in federal court. A worker severely injured a hand in a Waukegan plant and sued Cumberland Engineering, the machine’s manufacturer. While the trial was in progress, Muhammad was arrested in a Loop doughnut shop where he had gone to collect half of a $2,500 bribe from an undercover FBI agent posing as an official of the corporate defendant.
8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dirksen Federal Building, 219 S. Dearborn St.
