Burke is charged with 14 counts, including racketeering, federal program bribery, attempted extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion and using interstate commerce to facilitate an unlawful activity.
At the heart of the indictment are more than 100 secretly recorded meetings and phone calls prosecutors plan to play that allegedly show Burke using his elected office to win benefits for himself, mostly through business for his private law firm.
Burke's defense team, meanwhile, will try to show that Burke's maneuvering was nothing more than politics as usual. The crux of Burke's defense will likely be to knock down Solis, who was caught in his own corruption scheme before agreeing in 2016 to become an FBI mole and secretly record Burke.
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