The corrupt former chief of staff to onetime Cook County Commissioner Jeff Tobolski won a sentencing break Tuesday, convincing a judge to reduce his lengthy prison term to time served.

Patrick Doherty has been serving a 64-month prison sentence handed down to him in 2023 by U.S. District Judge Ronald Guzman. The judge delivered that sentence after Doherty admitted to several schemes that involved Tobolski and the late state Sen. Martin Sandoval.

They revolved around Doherty’s job in Cook County government, the villages of Oak Lawn and McCook, a cigar lounge in Countryside, red-light cameras and bribes totaling $148,000.

But Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Franklin Valderrama agreed to reduce Doherty’s prison sentence to 51 months — or time served — because of changes to federal sentencing

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