Nearly a year ago, Casey Urlacher found himself charged with nine others in a sports gambling case that could have put him in federal prison.
That prison threat still looms over most of his co-defendants. But late Tuesday, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to Urlacher, mayor of north suburban Mettawa and brother of Chicago Bears great Brian Urlacher.
“Throughout his life, Mr. Urlacher has been committed to public service and has consistently given back to his community,” the White House wrote in its announcement. It also called Casey Urlacher “a devoted husband to his wife and a loving father to his 17-month-old daughter.”
The lead defendant in the case that included Urlacher, Vincent “Uncle Mick” DelGiudice, is expected to plead guilty Monday.
A 28-page federal indictment handed down last February alleged Urlacher tracked down gambling debts while helping DelGiudice run a multimillion-dollar illegal gambling operation involving as many as 1,000 sports gamblers.
Brian Urlacher met with Trump at the White House in March 2020, shortly after his brother’s indictment, according to media reports.
Meanwhile, DelGiudice’s father, Eugene DelGiudice, pleaded guilty last summer and has been sentenced to three months of home detention.
After his indictment, Casey Urlacher denied to the Chicago Sun-Times any knowledge of the gambling investigation. He pleaded not guilty. Urlacher was charged in the indictment with one count of participating in the gambling conspiracy and one count of running an illegal gambling business.
The indictment alleged that Urlacher asked Vincent DelGiudice to create a login and password for a new gambler on DelGiudice’s gambling website on Dec. 16, 2018. DelGiudice allegedly did so, setting a $500 maximum bet, a $3,000 maximum wager for the week and a $1,000 settle-up figure.
On Dec. 21, 2018, Urlacher allegedly gave an envelope filled with gambling debts owed to DelGiudice to Vasilios Prassas, who was also charged in the indictment. That same day, Prassas allegedly passed an envelope filled with Urlacher’s gambling debts on to DelGiudice with the remark, “This is Casey’s.”
Urlacher also allegedly asked DelGiudice by phone on Dec. 26, 2018, to shut down a gambler’s account until the gambler paid a debt. That same day, after the gambler wired $3,000 to Urlacher, Urlacher allegedly texted DelGiudice and told him to turn the gambler’s account back on.
The feds also say Urlacher paid a gambling debt to DelGiudice on Feb. 1, 2019.
Casey Urlacher played football at NCAA Division III Lake Forest College, graduating in 2003. He had a brief tryout with the Bears that year and went on to play a couple of seasons in the Arena League.
According to his bio on the Lake Forest College website, “he then became an entrepreneur in the fields of real estate, restaurants, and construction before adding politics to his list of career endeavors.” He has been mayor of Mettawa since 2013 and made a failed bid for Illinois Senate in 2016, losing in the Republican primary.
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