An Illinois state senator on trial for bribery testified Thursday that he was at one point considering cooperating with the government but was uncomfortable with agents’ request that he wear a wire to record his colleagues and a local hospital CEO.
“Why were you not willing to wear a wire?” attorney Victor Henderson of Henderson Parks, who represents Sen. Emil Jones III (D), asked his client on the stand.
Jones sighed and took a long pause.
“Because if...” he said, then paused again. “I don’t know how to answer that question.”
Jones, who is charged with bribery and making false ...
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