Prosecutor Cites 'Voluminous' Evidence vs. Former AT&T Executive

Federal prosecutors have “voluminous" amounts of evidence against a former AT&T executive indicted on charges related to bribing state legislators, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Julia Schwartz on a court-ordered status call Tuesday as part of the case against Paul La Schiazza (docket 1:22-cr-00520) in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois (see 2210280038). Discovery recently sent to La Schiazza’s defense counsel, Morgan Lewis attorney Tinos Diamantatos, included hundreds of intercepted phone calls and over 100,000 pages of documents, she said. Due to the large amount of discovery, Judge Robert Gettleman scheduled a second status conference for Jan. 9.