Urlacher co-defendant pleads guilty in gambling case
Posted February 02, 2021 12:00 am
Two weeks after Donald Trump handed Casey Urlacher a full pardon in the final hours of Trump's presidency, the lead defendant in the case that put Urlacher in legal jeopardy pleaded guilty to a federal gambling charge in a Chicago courtroom.
Vincent "Uncle Mick" DelGiudice, 55, of Orland Park, admitted Tuesday he ran an illegal sports gambling ring based around Chicago that allegedly involved as many as 1,000 gamblers and netted DelGiudice $8 million.
He pleaded guilty to a gambling conspiracy and money laundering in a rare, in-person hearing on the 25th floor of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse.
The Chicago Sun-Times has more at chicago.suntimes.com.
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