Updated 03/21/13 – 1:55 p.m.

CHICAGO (CBS) – Federal prosecutors told a jury Thursday there’s no evidence Cook County Commissioner William Beavers was taking out a loan from his campaign fund for personal expenses, but the defense argued the prosecution was trying to “bamboozle” jurors.

WBBM Newsradio’s John Cody reports Beavers is accused of failing to report as income more than $225,000 in campaign cash he used for personal expenses, including gambling sprees at a Hammond Casino.

The defense has argued the withdrawals from the campaign fund were tax-exempt loans, and virtually all of the money was paid back, or used for legitimate campaign expenses.

In the prosecution’s final argument to the jury, Assistant U.S. Atty. Matt Getter said, “you will conclude the only verdict consistent with the evidence is guilty.”

Defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. whispered to jurors, “send that 78-year-old man home.”

Earlier, Assistant U.S. Atty. Carrie Hamilton accused Beavers of intentionally understating his income between 2006 and 2008.

She said Beavers wrote 93 checks from his campaign fund to use the money for gambling expenses at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond, and never reported the money on his federal tax returns, or reported it as a tax-exempt loan. She said he lost nearly $500,000 total from 2006 to 2008 on the slots.

Adam acknowledged Beavers might have a gambling problem, but said he used ATMs to pay for his gambling expenses, and wrote campaign checks only to cover legitimate campaign expenses. He said Beavers was repaying any campaign cash he used as loans for personal expenses.

Hamilton said Beavers kept thorough records of any campaign spending to make sure he was reimbursed, but there were no loan agreements regarding the money in question, not even an IOU written on a napkin.

Sam Adam Jr. drew objections from the prosecution when he countered in a booming voice that prosecutors “are trying to bamboozle you.”

Adam suggested prosecutors twisted evidence against Beavers, and criticized an IRS agent who testified for the government, but said he wasn’t good at all aspects of math. Adam said prosecutors relied on the one accountant “who couldn’t add and subtract.”

Judge James Zagel told Adam he seemed to be engaging in personal attacks and ordered him to stop. Beavers normally sat stone-faced but chuckled when the judge admonished Adam.

Jurors were set to get instructions later Thursday afternoon before beginning their deliberations.

During the trial, prosecutors showed jurors dozens of checks Beavers wrote to himself on his campaign fund accounts, while he was playing the slots at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond.

Federal prosecutors said he never declared those checks on his tax returns, and never paid taxes on that income. They also said Beavers failed to declare a $69,000 boost he gave his pension from campaign funds, as well as $1,200 per month that he received in county expense checks — falsifying check stubs to “deliberately impede the IRS.”

Defense attorneys have argued that virtually all of the money in question that Beavers took from his campaign fund was either paid back or used for legitimate campaign expenses.

Beavers had repeatedly vowed to take the stand in his own defense, but decided against testifying on Wednesday when his attorneys presented their case.

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