But last month, federal agents raided a retail photo studio in the ward that allegedly was part of a plot to produce phony identification cards. The owner of the shop is Elias Munoz, Ricky's father.
From ABC 7 Chicago:
Federal agents allege that a ring of fake ID sellers that operated for at least 3 1/2 years in the parking lot of a Little Village strip mall routinely sent their customers -- sometimes over 100 a day -- to Nuevo Foto Munoz, 3105 W. 26th St., to fill out forms and have their pictures taken for $10 each. At another location, the counterfeiters used the snapshots to make bogus Social Security cards, green cards and driver's licenses.
I don't think I paid more than six dollars for my passport photo I got last winter at a Morton Grove Walgreens; I live in a middle class part of the Chicago area, and Munoz's ward, well, let's just say it's not in prosperous part of the metropolis. So $10 for a similar pic is a bit high. But part of the senior Munoz' defense will be that he was just taking photographs.
This is just a new twist on an old story: Not only do Chicago aldermen seem to find themselves in trouble with the law, so do their relatives--and this time it's Elias Munoz, father of Ald. Ricky (who has not been implicated).
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