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Democratic Corruption
Blagojevich had big plans, witness says
Sunday, April 20, 2008 - By Bob Secter and Jeff Coen
- Chicago Tribune
A veteran Democratic fundraiser testified Tuesday that Gov. Rod Blagojevich once offered to give him his pick of contracts and state business in exchange for help building a nationwide political money machine as a prelude to a presidential run.
The governor said "that there were contracts, legal work, investment banking work and consulting work to be awarded to people who helped," Joseph Cari recalled as he took the stand in the federal corruption trial of Blagojevich insider Antoin "Tony" Rezko.
The allegations by Cari, once a finance chairman for the Democratic National Committee, were the most explicit accusations of pay-to-play politics leveled against Blagojevich at a trial where he is not even the defendant.
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Obama opens up on Rezko, and it's almost believable
Saturday, March 22, 2008 - Chicago Tribune - John Kass
Barack Obama looked me straight in the eye. I heard him speak. Yet unlike some other pundits, I felt no thrill going up my leg.
I did feel a twinge of Rezko, though, and figured Obama could feel it, too, like when the bottom of your foot cramps up inside your shoe and you can't dance.
That's "hardball" the Chicago way, as Barack visited the Tribune on Friday to discuss his old friend, fundraiser and real estate fairy, indicted political fixer Tony Rezko. Rezko himself was quite busy, in federal custody, preparing for this week's testimony in his corruption trial.
Obama spoke at length about wanting to emerge clean from the cesspool of Chicago politics. He also spoke about his controversial pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose racially charged and radically anti-American comments Obama denounced without denouncing the man. There will be more to say on Wright and liberal media guilt and tortured Democratic formulations of race and gender in future days.
But I was focused on Obama and Rezko. I wanted to believe Obama, and almost did.
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Obama Hires Schakowsky's Felonious Husband
 | | Sen. Barack Obama and Rep. Jan Schakowsky |
Monday, July 16, 2007
"Robert Creamer, the husband of U. S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill) who was sentenced to jail for running a community group and paying himself big bucks while banks held the bag, has been teaching a group of young (mostly) volunteers for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama...." Read the rest at tomroeser.com.
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Ex-officials blame gov's officeFriday, January 26, 2007 - By BY DAVE MCKINNEY Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief
- Chicago Sun-Times
Clout wins out in county hiring, tooMonday, August 21, 2006 - By ABDON M. PALLASCH
- Chicago Sun-Times
Governor's office takes another hit over hireMonday, June 26, 2006 - Daily Herald
5,000 names on secret clout listTuesday, June 20, 2006 - By BY STEVE WARMBIR, FRAN SPIELMAN, MARK J. KONKOL AND TIM NOVAK
- Chicago Sun-Times
Gov muzzles his cloutbusterThursday, May 18, 2006 - By CHRIS FUSCO
- Chicago Sun-Times
Stroger campaign official gets county jobTuesday, May 02, 2006 - By Steve Patterson
- Chicago Sun-Times
Schakowsky's husband gets 5 months for check-kitingFriday, April 07, 2006 - By NATASHA KORECKI
- Chicago Sun-Times
Laski to admit he pocketed bribes in Hired TruckThursday, March 16, 2006 - By Fran Spielman
- Suntimes
Federal prosecutors Thursday added more charges in their case against Mayor Daley's former patronage chief Robert Sorich and his colleagues, ratcheting up the heat in what is shaping up to be a hard-fFriday, February 24, 2006 - By Steve Warmbir and Tim Novak
- Chicago Sun-Times
Heads rolled in the sheriff's office Monday as investigators probed a Cook County Jail shooting so bizarre it could be an episode on "Law & Order.Tuesday, February 07, 2006 - By Frank Main & Maureen O'Donnell
- Suntimes
Their jobs are to conduct independent investigations into claims of corruption within Cook County government.Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - By Steve Patterson
- Chicago Sun-Times
Since taking office in 1989, Mayor Richard Daley has slashed the City Hall department that was supposed to keep politics out of city hiring, even as he insisted that he was committed to filling publicSunday, December 04, 2005 - By Todd Lighty, Dan Mihalopoulos and Laurie Cohen
- Chicago Tribune
In the swirl of Hired Truck corruption and City Hall hiring scams, Daniel Katalinic was in the thick of things.Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR AND TIM NOVAK
- Chicago Sun-Times
Hay Management Group has spent years going through city and county government records, but hasn't been able to find a single instance of patronage-driven hiring.Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - By STEVE PATTERSON
- Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD -- Three times this year, state election officials have asked state Rep.Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - By DAVE MCKINNEY
- Chicago Sun-Times
The City of Chicago has quietly overcharged thousands of homeowners who agreed to pay half the cost of replacing their walkways under the city's popular 50/50 Sidewalk Program, the Chicago Sun-Times hFriday, October 14, 2005
Thirteen of Mayor Daley's top aides have either left or been shown the door in recent months as the Hired Truck, city hiring and minority contracting scandals make their way up the ladder at City HallMonday, October 03, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN
- Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Ald.Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - By BY STEVE WARMBIR AND TIM NOVAK
- Chicago Sun-Times
Nine clout-heavy city employees accused of participating in a payroll scam -- including the brother-in-law of county Commissioner John Daley -- resigned before they could be fired, preserving lump-sumFriday, September 09, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago taxpayers have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on compliance audits that found only technical violations of the Shakman decree that City Hall is now accused of scheming to circumvent.Thursday, September 08, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Political powerhouse turned heavyweight lawyer Ed Vrdolyak has agreed to a 30-day suspension of his law license for double-billing sexual harassment victims he represented in a class-action lawsuit.Thursday, September 08, 2005 - By ABDON M. PALLASCH - Legal Affairs Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Despite his silence about corruption investigations that have touched his political group and insurance business, Cook County Commissioner John Daley is not currently a focus of any criminal probe, thThursday, September 08, 2005 - By STEVE PATTERSON & NATASHA KORECKI - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
The Federal Aviation Administration is fining the city of Chicago $33,000 for its late-night demolition of Meigs Field, an FAA spokesman said Tuesday.Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - By Assocaited Press
- Chicago Sun-Times
Angelo Torres, the corrupt former chief of the city's Hired Truck Program, may be broke, but he no longer wants to declare bankruptcy.Wednesday, September 07, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK & STEVE WARMBIR - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Let me be the first to make this statement: I think the Daley corruption in Chicago issue could wipe out the entire Democratic ticket next year -- and affect some national congressional races for the Saturday, September 03, 2005 - By THOMAS ROESER - Sun-Times Columnist
- Chicago Sun-Times
City Clerk James Laski is under federal scrutiny as part of the Hired Truck probe, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.Friday, September 02, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR, FRAN SPIELMAN, NATASHA KORECKI & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
The City of Chicago has hired a criminal defense attorney.Friday, September 02, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK, STEVE WARMBIR & FRAN SPIELMAN - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Hired truck driver Donald Warren made off with at least 17 truckloads of city asphalt but walked out of federal court in Chicago with a lighter load than prosecutors wanted -- five years of probation.Thursday, September 01, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
An all-purpose City Hall troubleshooter who signed off on at least a few of the 14 pay raises granted to convicted Hired Truck czar Angelo Torres has been chosen by Mayor Daley to replace Interim ChieThursday, September 01, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
They had come to politely ask for more police officers, youth programs and garbage pickup, but before residents could plead for more funding at Tuesday night's budget hearing, Mayor Daley apologized fWednesday, August 31, 2005 - By LISA DONOVAN - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Political consultant Robert Creamer, the husband of U.Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - By Associated Press
- Chicago Sun-Times
If Mayor Daley's revolving door takes any more turns, it might go into permanent spin mode.Sunday, August 28, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Pity the high-powered Washington, D.Saturday, August 27, 2005 - By ABDON M. PALLASCH - Legal Affairs Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
The feds for the first time interviewed Mayor Daley on Friday about a burgeoning Hired Truck investigation that has reached into the mayor's patronage system.Saturday, August 27, 2005 - By NATASHA KORECKI & STEVE PATTERSON - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
The Daley administration gave up the ghost Thursday on two priorities stemming from the Hired Truck scandal: privatizing the program and finding out who placed a former gang member in charge of it.Friday, August 26, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
City Hall moved Thursday to fire 47 more employees for an array of offenses ranging from theft, bribery and falsifying time cards to possession of drugs and driving on revoked licenses.Friday, August 26, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Congressman Rahm Emanuel said it was his own idea to go on the offensive Wednesday in defense of Mayor Daley, something he came up with during one of his one-mile swims at the YMCA in Washington.Friday, August 26, 2005 - By MARK BROWN - SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
- Chicago Sun-Times
In 1989, Rahm Emanuel used his Type-A personality and relentless fund-raising tactics to rake in $7 million in just 13 weeks for mayoral candidate Richard M.Thursday, August 25, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
A fourth city of Chicago employee was charged Tuesday with involvement in a local branch of a Colombian heroin ring.Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - By ASSOCIATED PRESS
- Chicago Sun-Times
A clout-heavy company with two generations of ties to the Daley family has provided a comfortable landing for former Chicago Buildings Commissioner Stan Kaderbek.Wednesday, August 24, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Provident Hospital's former finance chief -- who was also a top member of John Stroger's 8th Ward political organization -- is accused of conspiring to steal millions from Cook County taxpayers.Tuesday, August 23, 2005 - By STEVE PATTERSON - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
The brother of Ald.Friday, August 19, 2005 - By STEFANO ESPOSITO - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Breaking the code of silence observed by a parade of cabinet members forced out of Mayor Richard Daley's administration, a department head who got the ax last week fired back at City Hall on WednesdayThursday, August 18, 2005 - By Dan Mihalopoulos & Laurie Cohen
- Chicago Tribune
A clout-heavy deal to bring a high-tech Internet service to O'Hare and Midway airports is having trouble getting off the ground as two key players find themselves caught up in the latest City Hall scaThursday, August 11, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK, STEVE WARMBIR & FRAN SPIELMAN - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
A company founded by Gov.Thursday, August 11, 2005 - By CHRIS FUSCO & DAVE MCKINNEY - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley on Tuesday did a popular political dance -- the sidestep -- when asked whether he would stand for re-election in the wake of the corruption scandals climbing the ladder at City Hall.Wednesday, August 10, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley's corporation counsel on Monday held the first in a series of meetings with the monitor handpicked by a federal judge to make recommendations about city hirings and promotions to guaranteeTuesday, August 09, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
A former hoisting engineer for the city's Transportation Department was sentenced to a year and a day in prison Thursday for his participation in the Hired Truck Program scandal.Friday, August 05, 2005 - By RUMMANA HUSSAIN - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
In an unusual move, Mayor Daley has been ordered by a federal judge to give a sworn, pretrial interview to his cousin Mark Gyrion's lawyers in a lawsuit against the city and Daley.Friday, August 05, 2005 - By NATASHA KORECKI & FRAN SPIELMAN - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
When high-ranking Chicago Park District official Shirley McMayon oversaw acres of trees, lawns and gardens, she got her hands dirty -- with bribe money, federal prosecutors charged Thursday.Friday, August 05, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR, ANDREW HERRMANN, NATASHA KORECKI & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
If a federal judge wants to give his handpicked monitor the extraordinary power to sign off on every job the city fills, "so be it," Mayor Daley said Wednesday, but an attorney representing Michael ShThursday, August 04, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Days after one Chicago city official pleaded guilty and admitted that political hiring is a way of life at City Hall, a federal judge Tuesday took the drastic step of appointing a monitor to oversee tWednesday, August 03, 2005 - By ABDON M. PALLASCH - Legal Affairs Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
The Daley administration has awarded a $2 million contract to repair refuse-collection carts to a clout-heavy company once accused of supplying carts to a minority-owned firm with a similar name and cWednesday, August 03, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Victor Reyes, a former top aide to Mayor Daley linked to City Hall practices under investigation by federal prosecutors, abruptly resigned from his law firm this week.Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - By ERIC HERMAN - Business Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Angelo Torres spent about four years running the city's Hired Truck Program, pocketing more than $60,000 in bribes and shaking down trucking outfits for campaign cash.Wednesday, August 03, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Cook County's hiring practices could come under the scrutiny of a federal judge, in light of a Chicago Sun-Times report of a "clout list" being used to influence hiring and promotions in county governMonday, August 01, 2005 - By STEVE PATTERSON & ABDON M. PALLASCH - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
From all appearances, it is a "clout list:"
Who should be pushed for government jobs; which current employees should receive promotions.Sunday, July 31, 2005 - By ABDON M. PALLASCH & STEVE PATTERSON - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
For years, Mayor Daley's onetime patronage chief, Victor Reyes, would belittle city water czar Donald Tomczak, who headed one of City Hall's strongest political armies.Saturday, July 30, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN, STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Shortly after taking office in 2003, Gov.Monday, July 25, 2005 - By CHRIS FUSCO & DAVE MCKINNEY - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
The federal spotlight trained on City Hall exposes, more than ever, practices that investigators say illegally connect politics and hiring in the Daley administration.Sunday, July 24, 2005 - By MARK J. KONKOL - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Aldermen who once cowered at his feet are now talking openly -- at least among themselves -- about his political survival and possible replacements.Sunday, July 24, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
dOn the heels of allegations by federal prosecutors that City Hall rewarded campaign supporters with jobs and promotions, an analysis by a newspaper found that more than 1,200 voter registrars for polSunday, July 24, 2005 - By Associated Press
- ABC Channel 7
John Cannatello, a high school dropout from Bridgeport, started out as a city truck driver.Friday, July 22, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK & STEVE WARMBIR - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Arguing that he has no alternative now that U.Friday, July 22, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley's bombshell decision to wash his hands of city hiring and promotions to restore public confidence shaken by a fast-moving federal investigation is rubbing salt on an old City Council woundThursday, July 21, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley is one of those people who should not use the Latin phrase "per se," because when he does, it sticks out like a sore pinky ring finger.Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - By MARK BROWN - SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
- Chicago Sun-Times
Crooked city employee John "Quarters" Boyle had a clear idea what to do with the money he was extorting from a businessman in the city's scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program.Wednesday, July 20, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Stung by allegations of test-rigging and sham interviews that made a mockery of the Shakman decree, Mayor Daley will wash his hands of city hiring and promotions and shift control over the vast majoriWednesday, July 20, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley got angry in January 2004 when reporters questioned his commitment to a patronage-free city government in light of his failed attempt to vacate the Shakman decree.Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - By MARK BROWN - SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
- Chicago Sun-Times
In the Richard J.Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Daley administration loyalists are providing federal investigators ammunition in the most significant prosecution yet in the Hired Truck investigation -- one that aims to show that the mayor's people Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR, TIM NOVAK, FRAN SPIELMAN & ABDON PALLASCH - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Four more Streets and Sanitation employees have been fired and another has resigned in a 27th Ward housecleaning triggered by allegations that non-government employees were allowed to operate city equThursday, July 14, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Fresno Transport has been accused of paying bribes to get work in the city's scandalous Hired Truck Program.Thursday, July 14, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK & STEVE WARMBIR - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Gov.Tuesday, July 12, 2005 - By CHRIS FUSCO - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
Federal investigators have been quizzing city employees about lists they received from Mayor Daley's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs that allegedly recommended people for city jobs that are supposTuesday, July 12, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & FRAN SPIELMAN - STAFF REPORTERS
- Chicago Sun-Times
A $102,564-a-year Streets and Sanitation official in charge of the bureau that runs vacant lot cleaning retired Thursday amid word that another newly departed sanitation employee wore a wire to snare Friday, July 01, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN - City Hall Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
A suburban paving contractor admitted Tuesday that he bought 60 truckloads of asphalt worth $36,000 that were supposed to be used to repair Chicago streets from employees and drivers working in the ciTuesday, June 28, 2005 - By MIKE ROBINSON - ASSOCIATED PRESS
- Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD -- A major contributor to Gov.Monday, June 27, 2005 - By JOHN O'CONNOR - Associated Press
- Chicago Sun-Times
I only had one question Friday for 20th Ward Ald.Sunday, June 26, 2005 - By MARK BROWN - SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
- Chicago Sun-Times
A second City of Chicago department has been implicated for having an illegal army of political workers for Chicago politicians.Friday, June 24, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD -- Gov.Friday, June 24, 2005 - By DAVE MCKINNEY - Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief
- Chicago Sun-Times
Sometimes, in this city, a reporter can feel a little like mystery maven Jessica Fletcher, the Angela Lansbury character in "Murder She Wrote.Friday, June 24, 2005 - By CAROL MARIN - SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
- Chicago Sun-Times
As city officials publicly announced the departure of two high-level officials Wednesday, they quietly accepted the resignation of a lower-profile official who may figure in an ongoing federal investiFriday, June 24, 2005 - By ABDON M. PALLASCH & SHEILA ROGERS CLANCY - Sun-Times Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Ald.Friday, June 24, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK, STEVE WARMBIR & ANNIE SWEENEY - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Turnover in the scandal-plagued Daley administration continued Wednesday, as two more top City Hall figures left their jobs.Thursday, June 23, 2005 - By STEVE PATTERSON - Staff Reporter
- Chicago Sun-Times
A retired Chicago sewer and water worker admitted Thursday that he delivered envelopes of payoff cash exchanged for work in the city's corruption-riddled Hired Truck Program and that he worked on poliThursday, June 23, 2005 - By MIKE ROBINSON - ASSOCIATED PRESS
- Chicago Sun-Times
A south suburban trucking company passed more than $100,000 in bribes to city Water Management Department czar Donald Tomczak and other city officials over several years to continue getting business fFriday, June 17, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Transportation Commissioner Miguel d'Escoto is the latest city official to be run down by the Hired Truck scandal, as Mayor Daley demanded and got his resignation because of "a pattern of probFriday, June 17, 2005 - By STEVE PATTERSON & MARK J. KONKOL - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
With tears in her eyes, a Northwest Side woman told a federal judge Wednesday that she was "deeply, deeply sorry" for helping her husband, a city sewer worker, cheat the city to rake in more than $1.Thursday, June 16, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
George Prado was led into federal court Tuesday morning in leg chains and handcuffs and wearing a prison-issued orange jumpsuit.Wednesday, June 15, 2005 - By CAROL MARIN - SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
- Chicago Sun-Times
City crews did more than 4,300 cleanups last year under Mayor Daley's Vacant Lot Cleaning Program.Monday, June 13, 2005 - Chicago Sun-Times
To clean up the mess in the city's Vacant Lot Cleaning Program, city officials are arming some workers with technology.Monday, June 13, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK & STEVE WARMBIR - STAFF REPORTERS
- Chicago Sun-Times
Go to 9040 S.Monday, June 13, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK & STEVE WARMBIR - STAFF REPORTERS
- Chicago Sun-Times
On a hot July day last summer, a city crew rolled up to a South Side gas station to scoop up tons of trash.Monday, June 13, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - STAFF REPORTERS
- Chicago Sun-Times
The Vacant Lot Cleaning Program is coming under scrutiny as part of the federal investigation into the scandal-plagued Hired Truck Program.Monday, June 13, 2005 - By TIM NOVAK & STEVE WARMBIR - STAFF REPORTERS
- Chicago Sun-Times
Mayor Daley celebrated his 10th year as the ultimate chief of Chicago Public Schools on Thursday by basking in the glow of record-high reading scores -- offering him a respite from the scandals that hFriday, June 10, 2005 - By FRAN SPIELMAN & ROSALIND ROSSI - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD -- Embattled state Sen.Friday, June 10, 2005 - By DAVE MCKINNEY - Sun-Times Springfield Bureau Chief
- Chicago Sun-Times
A bagman working for Water Management Department chief Donald Tomczak shook down a crooked trucking firm operator for a contribution directly to the campaign fund of Cook County Commissioner John DaleFriday, June 10, 2005 - By STEVE WARMBIR & TIM NOVAK - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
A politically connected Water Management Department employee and two other city workers were arrested Wednesday on charges of conspiring to sell heroin, prompting Rep.Thursday, June 09, 2005 - By FRANK MAIN, MARK J. KONKOL, FRAN SPIELMAN & CAROL MARIN - Staff Reporters
- Chicago Sun-Times
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