Scott Fawell, indicted for a second time last week, was ordered to be brought from a prison in South Dakota to a Chicago federal jail to be arraigned here on the new charges next month.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlander Keys ordered the move after prosecutors said they intend to have the case set for trial at the earliest possible time. The arraignment was scheduled for March 10.
Fawell, already in prison for corruption during former Gov. George Ryan’s tenure as secretary of state, was indicted last week on charges that, as head of the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, he helped rig bids so that a firm won a lucrative contract in 2001 to oversee a huge expansion at McCormick Place. The powerhouse lobby firm of Ronan Potts LLC was also charged.
