* From the US Attorney’s office…

The United States of America, by MORRIS PASQUAL, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, respectfully moves this Court to dismiss the information as to defendant Daniel Solis. In support of this motion, the government states as follows:

1. On April 8, 2022, an information was filed in this case, charging defendant Daniel Solis with corruptly soliciting, accepting, and agreeing to accept campaign contributions intending to be influenced and rewarded in connection with City of Chicago transactions, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 666(a)(1)(B). R. 1.

2. On April 12, 2022, the government filed a deferred prosecution agreement as to Solis. R. 7. The deferred prosecution agreement provided that, at the time of Solis’s arraignment on the information, the parties agreed to request that the District Court defer proceedings on the charge in the information pursuant to Title 18, United States Code, Section 3161(h)(2) for a period of 36 months from the filing of the information – “the deferred prosecution period. ” R. 7 at 1. The end of the deferred prosecution period, given the April 8, 2022 filing date of the information, is April 8, 2025.

3. On April 21, 2022, the Court excluded time through April 8, 2025. R. 14. The parties have filed joint status reports pursuant to the Court’s orders on July 19, 2022 (R. 17), March 23, 2023 (R. 19), March 13, 2024 (R. 22), and September 24, 2024 (R. 24).

4. Solis most recently testified in the government’s case in chief in the trial of United States v. Michael J. Madigan and Michael F. McClain, No. 22 CR 115 (Blakey, J.).

5. The deferred prosecution agreement provides, “If Mr. Solis has fulfilled all of the terms and conditions of this agreement at the conclusion of the deferred prosecution period, the USAO [United States Attorney’s Office] will move the District Court to dismiss the Information as to Mr. Solis.” R. 7 at 2. Solis will have reached the end of the deferred prosecution period on April 8, 2025, and Solis has fulfilled all of the terms and conditions of the deferred prosecution agreement.

6. The deferred prosecution period is separate from Solis’s obligation to cooperate with the USAO, which extends beyond the deferred prosecution period and which continues until such time as the USAO provides written notice that “all investigations and prosecutions arising from or requiring Mr. Solis’s cooperation are final and that his cooperation is complete.” R. 7 at 3. No such written notification has been provided by the government to Solis and Solis’s obligation to cooperate remains ongoing.

7. The government moves this Court to dismiss the information as to Solis. The parties are available for a status hearing on April 8, 2025, and April 14, 15, and 16, 2025, if the Court prefers that the government formally move before the Court for the dismissal of the information. Counsel for Solis does not object to the dismissal of the information or to the scheduling of a status hearing in order for the government to make the formal motion before the Court.

* Sun-Times…

The request, part of a deal Solis struck with the feds in 2018, brings his case to a remarkable but long-expected conclusion. An FBI special agent once needed 100 pages to detail the allegations against Solis in a court affidavit. Now, Solis appears to be square with the federal government. Barring a surprise twist, he’ll walk away with his freedom, criminal record and pension intact. […]

Either way, the move is the result of an “extraordinary, if not unprecedented,” deal for a once high-ranking elected official, said former federal prosecutor Patrick Collins. But Solis also wore a wire and helped the feds convict ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke and former Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, two record-breaking politicians who appeared untouchable to generations of Chicagoans.

Collins, now a partner at the King & Spalding law firm, said “that’s the other hand of it.”

“I think it’s, in part, a statement of the value [prosecutors] put on the people he was cooperating against,” he said.