Former judge convicted for rigging murder cases dies

  Chuck Goudie and Barb Markoff

Former Cook County judge and convicted felon, Thomas Maloney, died Monday.

According to Maloney's former attorney, Terence Gillespie, he suffered from kidney failure and had been living in a nursing home.

Maloney was found guilty in April 1993 of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes for fixing three murder cases and a fourth felony case. He had retired from the bench in 1990.

His conviction was part of the investigation into judicial corruption dubbed Operation Greylord in the mid-1980s.

During a 1999 I-Team jailhouse interview with the former judge, Maloney adamantly denied ever taking money to throw cases.

Maloney was 83 years old.

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