Overview

• U.S. District Chief Judge Virginia Kendall handed down the four-year prison sentence on August 11, with Tobolski due to report on November 3.
• Federal prosecutors had sought a roughly five-and-a-half-year term, but his two-year reduction reflected extensive cooperation that included unshielded grand-jury testimony and recorded conversations.
• In 2020, Tobolski pleaded guilty to extorting more than $250,000 from businesses and associates, including $29,700 from an event-hosting restaurant on McCook property.
• Agents seized over $51,000 in cash from his home safe during the investigation into his dual roles as mayor and county commissioner.
• His cooperation was instrumental in securing convictions and pleas from former chief of staff Patrick Doherty, ex–Police Chief Mario DePasquale and others in the wider Chicago-area corruption probe.