Really. Does that mean U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is slacking off. Based on Federal convictions only the Daily Beast has come up with a list of the ten most corrupt states. The Daily Beast has compared corruption in the fifty … Continue reading
Category Archives: Corruption
Here’s the U.S. Attorney’s press release: CITY INSPECTOR CONVICTED OF BRIBERY IN PROBE OF CROOKED PERMITS CHICAGO — A federal jury today convicted a City of Chicago building inspector of federal bribery charges for accepting two $1,000 cash bribes from … Continue reading
Those of you who are more interested in politics than hockey knew that testimony in Governor Rod Blagojevich’s corruption trial got started yesterday. But you couldn’t tell from the ten o’clock news. It was non-stop Black Hawk Stanley Cup celebration … Continue reading
Back in the 1970’s I put in a request to the Legislative Council (the General Assembly’s non-partisan research agency) to develop a way to compare corruption among the states. That was when United States Attorney Jim Thompson was convicting lots … Continue reading
Island Lake pig farmer Bob Wargaski. he who fought and beat “city hall,” lives outside the village limits, but obviously has “had it up to here” with the way the incumbents have run things there. He commissioned the cartoon you … Continue reading
My Saturday article and Marathon Pundit’s on the same day were not the only Illinois-based musings on the corruption fighting credentials of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and U.S. Senator Barack Obama. When I got the Sunday Chicago Tribune, John Kass … Continue reading
My Saturday article and Marathon Pundit’s on the same day were not the only Illinois-based musings on the corruption fighting credentials of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and U.S. Senator Barack Obama. When I got the Sunday Chicago Tribune, John Kass … Continue reading
Both Barack Obama and John McCain’s choice for vice president, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin live in corrupt states. Sarah did something about the corruption in her State of Alaska. She fought it. If Barack Obama did anything about corruption in … Continue reading
Both Barack Obama and John McCain’s choice for vice president, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin live in corrupt states. Sarah did something about the corruption in her State of Alaska. She fought it. If Barack Obama did anything about corruption in … Continue reading
This internet round robin seems appropriate to publish. It’s author is unknown. Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired … Continue reading
This internet round robin seems appropriate to publish. It’s author is unknown. Once upon a time in the kingdom of Heaven, God was missing for six days. Eventually, Michael the archangel found him, resting on the seventh day. He inquired … Continue reading
Yesterday, I went to the Chicago Sun-Times web site to see what was there about Rod Blagojevich fund raiser Tony Rezko’s corruption convictions. Imagine my surprise when an ad with a panda in the center popped up over the links … Continue reading
Yesterday, I went to the Chicago Sun-Times web site to see what was there about Rod Blagojevich fund raiser Tony Rezko’s corruption convictions. Imagine my surprise when an ad with a panda in the center popped up over the links … Continue reading
With one governor sitting in jail and another disgraced by her incompetence in handling the Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana swore in the youngest governor in the nation this week. You know it isn’t Illinois, because we haven’t had a woman governor … Continue reading
With one governor sitting in jail and another disgraced by her incompetence in handling the Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana swore in the youngest governor in the nation this week. You know it isn’t Illinois, because we haven’t had a woman governor … Continue reading
Every think that U.S. Attorney doesn’t get out of Chicago enough? Don’t we suburbanites have crime that deserves prosecution? Apparently there was enough in the Bolingbrook public works department to interest the FBI and United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Here’s … Continue reading
Every think that U.S. Attorney doesn’t get out of Chicago enough? Don’t we suburbanites have crime that deserves prosecution? Apparently there was enough in the Bolingbrook public works department to interest the FBI and United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. Here’s … Continue reading
This weekend was a busy one, with a meeting in Naperville, a swim meeting in McHenry, my wife’s firm’s holiday party in Rosemont, church and a Christmas pageant in Lake Zurich. At the dinner Saturday night, we arrived late, taking … Continue reading
A spotlight has been pointed at divorce, McHenry County style. In a Union League press briefing held this morning, Chicago Crime Commission President Jim Wagner said that a report had been given the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the FBI, which … Continue reading