Count 1: The mailing via UPS by Glencoe Capital of its questionnaire to the Teachers’ Retirement System.
Count 2: The mailing of Glencoe’s presentation materials, which were used at the retirement system to help get Glencoe’s allocation. Also sent via UPS.
Count 3: A fax of the agreement by investment firm LLR Partners to pay trial witness Sheldon Pekin a finder’s fee. It was faxed from Philadelphia to Chicago in May 2004.
Count 4: A phone call between Levine and trial witness Joe Cari about a consultant to be used by investment firm JER Partners. Cari was in Hong Kong at the time.
Count 5: A May 2004 fax from Turks and Caicos Islands to JER Partners, which included a contract for a “finder” on a retirement system allocation.
Count 6: A phone call from Cari to JER Partners in which Cari threatens that JER would lose its retirement system allocation unless the firm hired a consultant.
Count 7: A retirement system questionnaire was sent via Fed Ex from investment firm Sterling Partners to the teachers’ system.
Count 8: The mailing of a packet, via Fed Ex, containing presentation materials for Sterling Partners.
Count 9: An e-mail to the mortgage investor Investors Mortgage Holdings in Arizona on how the company should be presented to the retirement system.
Count 10: Another e-mail on the same topic.
Count 11: The mailing of a letter from builder Jacob Kiferbaum to Mercy Hospital soliciting a construction contract. Kiferbaum paid a bribe to Levine for his help.
Count 12: The mailing of a letter from the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board to Mercy Hospital notifying the hospital that it had received approval.
Count 13: A phone call between Levine and his business partner, Robert Weinstein, about how fees would be split.
Count 14: Another call between the two.
Count 15: A third call between them.
Count 16: The attempted extortion of Tom Rosenberg at Capri Capital.
The next group involves the alleged aiding and abetting of bribery:
Count 17: A payment made by Pekin to Rezko associate Joseph Aramanda.
Count 18: An agreement that Levine would take a cut of a finder’s fee from investment firm LLR Partners.
Count 19: An agreement that Pekin would share a finder’s fee from investment firm Stockwell Capital.
Count 20: The solicitation of a payment to trial witness Chuck Hannon by JER Partners.
Count 21: The agreement that a large finder’s fee from Investors Mortgage Holdings would be split three ways.
Count 22: The solicitation of campaign contributions from Rosenberg in the Capri Capital deal.
The final two counts deal with money-laundering:
Count 23: A check made by Pekin to Aramanda in the Glencoe Capital deal.
Count 24: A second check also passed by Pekin to Aramanda, for $125,000, which prosecutors argue was a redirected finder’s fee.
