Overview
- A federal jury in Chicago returned the guilty verdicts after a seven-day trial on Dec. 10.
- Evidence showed John Kosmowski accepted $10,000 from a local businessman to influence a liquor-license transfer and shared the cash with building inspector William Mundy.
- The obstruction count stemmed from a 2022 meeting where Kosmowski urged Mundy to call the payoff a loan, a conversation Mundy recorded.
- U.S. District Judge Steven C. Seeger set Kosmowski’s sentencing for March 27, 2026.
- Mundy previously pleaded guilty to bribery and a false tax return and awaits sentencing, and the case was brought by the U.S. Attorney’s Office with the FBI and IRS-CI and tried by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tiffany Ardam and Jared Hasten.