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Lot 1443:
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# 2 Lieutenant Governor pair unused new in the wrapper. See pics. This plate was the personal license plate of George Ryan of Illinois who served as Illinois State Rep. including Speaker of the House, Lt. Gov of Illinois, Secretary of State of Illinois, and Governor of Illinois from 1999-2003. In December 2003, Ryan was named in a 22-count federal indictment. The charges included racketeering, bribery, extortion, money laundering, and tax fraud. The indictment alleged that Ryan steered several state contracts to friends; disbursed campaign funds to relatives and to pay personal expenses; and obstructed justice by attempting to end the state investigation of the license-for-bribes scandal. He was charged with lying to investigators and accepting cash, gifts and loans in return for his official actions as governor. On September 19, 2005, the case went to trial and on April 17, 2006, the jury found Ryan guilty on all counts and he was sentenced to 6 ½ years in prison. He died in 2025 at the age of 91.
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