Prosecutors are asking a federal judge to sentence 83-year-old Edward Vrdolyak to up to 3 1/2 years behind bars, saying his decision to hide money he took from a giant tobacco settlement was just the latest in a long string of ethical and legal lapses by someone who should have known better.
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