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Old 06-08-2019, 08:06 AM
 
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Without new oversight and accountability, City Hall cannot escape corruption, mismanagement and waste.

https://www.propublica.org/article/c...vors-patronage
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Old 06-08-2019, 10:45 AM
 
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wonder how many people will protest this?
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Old 06-08-2019, 10:57 AM
 
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Nothing new here.
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Old 06-08-2019, 12:51 PM
 
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When Ald. Burke was chairman of the Finance Committee, it was a blatant example of an inflated budget. In 1995, an investigator on the Finance Committee payroll, Marie D'Amico, was sentenced to prison for 'ghost payrolling.'


Ms. D'Amico was the daughter of Ald. Anthony Laurino. Apparently, Burke hired her as an investigator to trade favors with her father, a city council colleague.


After D'Amico's arrest in 1993, Burke claimed that he had 'no knowledge' of this ghost payroll scheme and that Ms. D'Amico was a good employee.
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Old 06-08-2019, 01:27 PM
 
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Ok, so there's $10M of grease in Chicago's budget. Ratchet it in too tightly and everyone jumps right to vendor kickbacks and inflated prices there.
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Old 06-11-2019, 07:16 PM
 
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More money for cronies.
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