James Zagel

James Block Zagel ( born March 4, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American lawyer and currently a judge at the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He studied at the University of Chicago (BA, MA 1962) and at Harvard Law School ( J / D /, 1963). Wide public attention Zagel won by his condemnation of the former governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich.

Also in other major processes Zagel served as judges. 2005, the FBI operation " Family Secrets " (English " Family Secrets " ) several arrests result. Then had to appear as significant mobster James Marcello, Joseph Lombardo, Paul Schiro and Frank Calabrese, but also Frank Schweihs and the former police officer Anthony Doyle Before Zagel. A life sentence for Marcello was born on 5 February 2009 then pronounced for the murder of Anthony Spilotro from Zagel.

Prior to 1987 made ​​by Ronald Reagan nomination as Federal District Judge Zagel had worked for Illinois, among others from 1965 to 1969 as deputy prosecutor in Cook County and then to 1977 as Deputy Attorney General.