One convicted in Bloomingdale Twp. kickback trial

A worker at a suburban excavation company has been convicted on charges alleging he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in kickbacks to Bloomingdale Township's onetime road commissioner, according to the U.S. attorney's office.

A jury on Monday convicted Mario Giannini, who worked for Bloomingdale-based Bulldog Earth Movers, at the end of a weeklong trial that featured the testimony of disgraced former Bloomingdale Township Highway Commissioner Robert Czernek.

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