Opinion ID: 709226
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Cooley

Text: 14 Maloney claims that the prosecution suppressed a statement Cooley made in his first meeting with the government. He reportedly said that he didn't have to bribe judges because he was with the First Ward, and when you were with the First Ward, everybody knew what was supposed to happen. According to Maloney, this statement rebutted his allegations of bribery in the Chow case. Cooley admitted at trial, however, that he was not fully honest with them when [he] first started talking to them, thus explaining any inconsistency between his trial testimony and his prior statements. Furthermore, in view of the tapes of conversations between Cooley and Marcy confirming the existence of a fix, and the jury's findings that at least two other predicate acts occurred, it was not an abuse of discretion for the district court to find that this suppression was not material to the outcome of the case.