I Didn't Know Nuthin
Seems the mayor's lawyer is catching it, too:
On Wednesday, aldermen were buzzing about Georges' claim she didn't know City Hall's worst-kept secret: that the IGA was involved in hiring -- even for jobs supposed to be protected by the Shakman ban.
The see-no-evil claim was not new for Georges.
Also Wednesday, city Corporation Counsel Mara Georges finished testimony but revised a critical element under defense questioning.
On Tuesday, Georges said she was unaware of allegations of irregularities in city hiring until the FBI raided IGA offices last year. But she grudgingly acknowledged she was aware of possible irregularities in the 2004 hiring of the 19-year-old son of a top union official for a city building inspector job.
"Perhaps I was aware there was an allegation, yes," she said.
posted by SCC at 7:00 AM
69 Comments:
Why immunity for Sheriff Sheahans kid to testify in theCity Hall corruption probe?
He should be one of the 1st pieces of shit to go to jail too!
He worked in personnel in the aviation department (a job for which he was uniquely qualified (sarcasim) I'll bet)making hiring decisions.
6/15/2006 06:59:17 AM
They always protect their own. Everyone else takes the fall!
Why is this thread posted twice SCC?
Are you drinking again?
Lawyers are LEECHES. They SUCK all the money out of you and tell you Well, I tried. Fuck them ! They all deserve to go to JAIL.
Can someone please explain how the TIF districts work? I thought that they are created within certain geographical areas to come up with money for improvements within that area. The theory behind it that with all the improvements that had been created will draw in additonal sources of revenue to pay off the project. I.E a TIF created dowtown for Billenuem park with the garage and additionally created revenue paying off the cost.
If this is true then how is the Chicago Public Schools coming up with a bit majority of their new school funding from TIF's when the schools the will build are in the ghetto? How are these areas going to create to taxes to pay off the cost of the building?
I know alligators, sir, and you are no lawyer!
How do Greeks hold so many key jobs in various city departments, including exempt spots on the police department, relative to their small percentage of the population in the city? Only in a meritocracy would this occur.
Why is there a Greek developer making condo's in several TIF districts?
Funeral Service is tonight
When you called Chester J. Jaskolka on the phone, you'd be treated to his usual greeting, "God speaking."
If he saw you walking down the street, he'd whistle so loud small children would instinctively clamp their hands over their ears.
If he greeted you as "meathead," you knew you were in good with the man everyone knew as just plain old Chester, lovingly referred to as the most wonderful, generous and loudest person you could ever meet.
Mr. Jaskolka, a retired Chicago Police lieutenant, succumbed to a nearly two-year battle with leukemia Monday morning at the University of Chicago Hospitals, leaving behind thousands of people he touched through his generosity and humor. He was 75.
Known for his imposing figure, huge hands, and raucous personality, Mr. Jaskolka was born on April 11, 1931, in a home for unwed mothers and eventually made his home at Visitation Parish, where he became an honorary Irishman under the guidance of Monsignor Dan Byrne and Father Stephen O'Donnell.
After he recuperated from getting kicked out of Quigley Seminary for -- putting it diplomatically -- borrowing some French exam questions, he graduated from St. Rita High School. He then spent four years in the Air Force, four years in the Chicago Forestry Department, and started his 39 years of service to the Chicago Police Department in 1957.
There he rose to rank of lieutenant, spending 18 years as the commanding officer of the Area 2 Youth Division, and earned the Police Superintendent's Award for Valor when he foiled a robbery attempt at a local eatery in December 1970.
Would outshine the pope
As the story goes, Mr. Jaskolka stopped by, along with partner Gerald McGarry, for a bite to eat when a masked man with a sawed-off shotgun burst in demanding money from the barkeep, sending everyone diving to the floor with a shot. Mr. Jaskolka and McGarry put seven bullets into the guy and further bolstered the "Chet Mystique."
"Everybody knew him. If he was standing next to the pope, people would say, 'Who's that with Chester?' " said longtime friend Jim Kilmartin. "He was a wonderful person. Oh, when you met him you'd probably hate him at first, but after about 20 minutes, you'd love him."
It was that way for the many students at Mount Carmel High School on the South Side who came to know him as a volunteer security guard.
During a recent ceremony to recognize Mr. Jaskolka as an honorary Mount Carmel alumnus -- the first in the school's history to receive the honor twice; the first time was in 1970 -- graduate Dan Healy recalled his second week as a freshman. Healy was sitting in the cafeteria when the biggest hand he ever saw reached over his shoulder and took half his sandwich. He asked a fellow student, "Who the hell is this guy?" The response was, "We're not sure, he's just here."
By just being there, Mr. Jaskolka mentored, harassed and generally kept in line countless Mount Carmel students who turned to him for "a handshake, a nod, words of encouragement or a few bucks," Healy said.
Notre Dame fanatic
In addition to being a Chicago fixture, Mr. Jaskolka was a world traveler. But despite his desire to see faraway lands, his favorite place to visit was South Bend, Ind., home of the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
He didn't attend the school, but was an honorary member of the Notre Dame Monogram and Trunk Club and the Notre Dame 100 Club.
"He loved it, he would go to every game," said longtime friend Megan Cook. "He was absolutely crazy about it."
Many people were absolutely crazy about Mr. Jaskolka, who never married.
"He was just unbelievable," said Kilmartin. "For an orphan who had no family, the whole world was his family."
Visitation will be held today from noon until 9 p.m. at Thompson & Kuenster Funeral Home, 5570 W. 95th St. in Oak Lawn. A funeral mass will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Visitation Church, 843 W. Garfield Blvd.
She didn't know "Nuthin" my ass! That's why her brother went from being Patrol officer Georges to Lieutenant Georges in less than 12 years. I worked in the same unit as he did. He wasn't the smartest guy then or now. But he is the commanding officer of the Marine Unit. But hey he will get another promotion by the end of the year. Maybe Commander of the Legal Afairs Division. Ha, ha, ha.......
They all need to go to jail. Richie, Your next. Can't wait to see you fall.
Lets see how SILLY SILLY SILLY it feels when your getting grub on a tray from an ice cream scooper!
While Sheahan's kid is there he can tell on his old man. The county makes even the city look legit! Common 19th. Ward suck holes let me have it (Mags)!
Richie is the crowning jewel of this investigation. Anyone one who thinks he will escape is giving him way too much credit. The feds are just biding their time till they he is completly hemmed up, they aren't like us as far as rushing investigations goes. He will be indicted in 2007, mark my words.
How bout Spiro Georges, her other brother who made Sgt in six years on the job. Prior to becoming Sgt, he was making Sgt pay while assigned to the black surveillance van. But there is no "juice" in this family!!!!
"I know nothin Mr U.S. Attorney"
Chester was a pal of 43rd ward alderman Danny O'Brien in the old days... RIP
10:56, he was a neighbor of mine briefly when we helped gentrify the near south side. That article just about sums him up. Wonderful neighbor, good guy.
Described by the old timers I knew as:
1.) the old area 2 youth commander;
2.) a fanatic Notre Dame fan; and
3.) the original orphan, and somehow related by the adoption to the Burke family (Ed, Anne).
RIP Chester, you were a good neighbor.
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Will Legalizing Drugs Be Good For America?
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Jimmy Curry chased big Kev into Club Gibbons with 3 BODY BUILDERS, you had to be there to witness the truth
Although big Kev was outnumbered he still managed to pull the job off without a scrath,
come on, gibbons vs 3, who hires people these
days to take down a vet, not to mention we re
all here for the kid, gibbons vs 3 , my bet is on
him, you got this
he s in the hospital dumbass
He never went to the hospital you stupid fuck
thats why his face is all fucked up, loser
Talk shit to his face, let's see the shit, just like
curry's guys, are they standing???????
what the fuck are people talking about?
jim curry probably had to do something with gibbons getting all tied up in the fight, they we re
gunning for his ass, and he s not in the hospital
that's why he's at ress
What did Curry do this time?
Daley has got all of his underlings so scared of him and all of the paper leading somwhere else. there is no way they could directly get him. The Daley's have always surrounded themselves with tight lipped people and the inner sanctom even moreso. It'll take a lot of influence to get him on anything.
Curry probably hired them after Gibbons
we ll see when kev gets out of the hospital
We re fighting for you gibbs, get well soon
ENOUGH SAID
G I B B O N S V S C U R R Y
WHEN HE GETS OUT, NO BODYBUILDERS ARE
AROUND TO SAVE CURRY, EVEN BETTER
He has two broken ribs you morons!!!!!!!!!!
It aint a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This came from a police blog: Excuse the language: This person doing some serious venting: I thought it was worth sharing a read and a big chuckle!
Fuck me? Fuck you! Fuck you and this whole city and everyone in it. Fuck the piss bums, grubbing for money, and smiling at me behind my back. Fuck the squeegee men dirtying up the clean windshield of my car. Get a fucking job! Fuck the Pakistanis bombing down the street in decrepit cabs, curry steaming out their pores, stinking up my day. Terrorists in fucking training. SLOW THE FUCK DOWN! Fuck the Korean grocers with their pyramids of overpriced fruit and their tulips and roses wrapped in plastic. Ten years in the country, still no speaky English? Fuck the Polacks in 016. Mobster thugs sitting in cafés, sipping tea in little glasses, sugar cubes between their teeth. Wheelin' and dealin' and schemin'. Go back where you fucking came from! Fuck the black-hatted Hasidics, strolling up and down Touhy in their dirty gabardine with their dandruff. Selling conflict diamonds! Fuck the Lincoln Park yuppies. Self-st! yled ma s ters of the universe. Michael Douglas, Gordon Gekko wannabe mother fuckers, figuring out new ways to rob hard working people blind. Send those Enron assholes to jail for FUCKING LIFE! You think Bush and Cheney didn't know about that shit? Give me a fucking break! Tyco! Worldcom! Fuck the Puerto Ricans. Banging around Humboldt Park 20 to a car, swelling up the welfare rolls, worst fuckin' parade in the city. And don't even get me started on the Mex-i-cant's, 'cause they make the Puerto Ricans look good. Fuck the south side Irish with their fucking satin green jackets. Who the fuck tells the whole world what parish they're from. Fuck the north side Irish, a bunch of wannabe south siders. Fuck the Bridgeport Italians with their pomaded hair, their nylon warm-up suits, their St. Anthony medallions, swinging their, Jason Giambi, Louisville slugger, baseball bats, trying to audition for the Sopranos. Fuck the Gold Coast wives with their Hermes scarves and their fifty-dollar Bald! ucci ar t i chokes. Overfed faces getting pulled and lifted and stretched, all taut and shiny. You're not fooling anybody, sweetheart! Fuck the west side brothers. Slinging dope and driving around in Escalades that cost more than the slum they live in. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and forty two years ago. Move the fuck on! Fuck the south side brothers too. The only difference between them and the west side is you have grass on the lawn. Fuck the assholes from Mt. Greenwood and Beverly. They're no different than the shitheads next door. Fuck the faggots in Wrigleyville. Walking up and down the street in leather shorts and sucking dicks in bathrooms. Fuck the priests who put their hands down some innocent child's pants. Fuck the church that protects them, delivering us into evil. Fuck Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the Iraqis and backward-ass, head chopping, fundamentalist assholes everywhere. On the names of innocent t! housand s mu rdered, I pray you spend the rest of eternity with your seventy-two whores roasting in a jet-fuel fire in hell. You towel headed camel jockeys can kiss my royal Irish ass! Fuck Daley. Fuck Stroger. Fuck Devine. Fuck the 018 District boys with their waxed chests and pumped up biceps. Going down on each other in my squad cars, jingling their dicks at one another in roll call. Fuck SOS with their guns for dope bullshit pinches! Fuck TRU and it's collection of two year wonders. Fuck the assholes in 011 & 007 who never met a Black til they came on this job. They gave them a badge and a gun and now they're a bad motherfucker. Fuck the pussies in 016 & 022. Do nothing motherfuckers who dodge doing nothing. Fuck SWAT and their wannabe D2 asses. You get paid to do nothing you sorry fucks! Fuck the detectives in their short sleeve shirts and polyester ties. You can't solve crime surfing the internet on each side of your two hour lunch. Fuck Narcotics and their 5 hour day.! Yeah m ot her fucker, that beard looks awesome. Now drive me home in your city car. Fuck IAD! Sorry motherfuckers who are afraid of the savage so they try to police us instead. Suck my dick! Fuck OPS! Your sorry ass was saved from a life of welfare by this sorry ass city. Fuck all the pussies working at 35th street. I hope your teeth rot from too much cum. Fuck all you inside motherfuckers. CAPS loving, Kool Aid drinking cowards! Fuck this whole city and everyone in it. From the row-houses of Streeterville to the penthouses on Michigan Avenue, from Altgeld Gardens to the cocksucking liberals in Rogers park. From the tenements in Lawndale to the brownstones in Hyde Park to the split-levels in Roscoe Village. Let an earthquake crumble it, let the fires rage, let it burn to fucking ash and then let the waters rise and submerge this whole rat-infested place.
Amen brother!! you made my day!
CLUB GIBBONS SAID, LOOK ABOVE
the only thing he missed was fuck jimmy curry too
I LOVE THOSE AREA 2 GUN GUYS.
That sounds like a bad day at work.
WHY IS IT THAT 3 BODY BUILDERS ARE IN THE HOSPITAL ALONG WITH GIBBONS??????????????
THAT SAYS ALOT ABOUT THAT GIBBONS NUT!!!!
this Gibbons /Curry thing sounds like a bunch of immature 2 year wonders Go pound your hairless chests somewhere else, you losers
bodybuilders?? haha try STEROID heads instead...violent tendencies,,must be "cycling..right @#%oles?
rumor has it,someone in 020 goes to the commander to rat out her fellow officers,,,,look out 3rd watch!
Anonymous said...
How bout Spiro Georges, her other brother who made Sgt in six years on the job. Prior to becoming Sgt, he was making Sgt pay while assigned to the black surveillance van. But there is no "juice" in this family!!!!
"I know nothin Mr U.S. Attorney"
6/15/2006 12:15:43 PM
This guy is complete stroke. This is the same guy that did his PPO's cycles in 010 than went to 35th Street after they were all done cause he couldnt handle the street. You sould see him walk around TRU like some big shot, take it easy only reason you got TRU is cause of your big jagoff brother was there at LT. Must really piss him off to know every other sgt thinks he is a stroke and have zero respect for him. Try your hardest to impress the 2 year wonders on your team, you moron.
The georgas with the rank is about as arrogant as they come. turns his chin to a patrolman. Ignorant mother fucker thinks he made it legit.
yummy mara. come sit on my lap. oh yes, right there.
Not everyone will be willing to go to the joint for Daley. The feds have all the time and resources in the world. As long as Richie's butt buddy Clinton is out of office he's fucked.
You gotta give him this; he is very good about whom he trusts.
Heard more new captains assigned. Who went where?
Lt G. is not as bad as his buddy Lt K. over in TRU both clout heavy. They both think they are better than the p.o’s. But Id pick Lt. G. over his buddy any day. At least he won’t try and take your woman. But I think that runs in the TRU blood. Word is the “guy in charge” is a bit of a player himself. He is building his stable with those young “ladies” on his office staff. Hmmm any buddy wanna guess who he has in his cross hairs? Well you don’t really have to, at the next party listen close. Once the “beverages” start flowing he’ll tell you how he’ll be dipping into some salsa. Is there a trip coming up to "seal the deal" hmmmm? Yes Im jealous! Makes me study even harder for my white shirt. The Money is good, but those benefits……….Dang!!!! Come on June 24…..
To the assclown that posted at 2:50 pm. fuck you and your mother if you can't take a joke. what's the matter? daddy used to make you put on a dress and sit on all his friends laps while they were playing poker? go pound sand fuckface!
hey big gibbons, get well soon
All this shit about Gibbons...Looks like 025 is at it again. Keep sending all the morons on the department to the same district. Haven't you young guys learned anything. 025 has the reputation of being a bunch of hard ass dumbfucks....and you guys are living right up to it. Gibbons shouldn't have even been allowed on the police department...I'm suprised he has lasted this long. Go Fighting 025!!!!
Sgt. Georges tried to terminate a chase inwhich there were shots fired by the police and he's on the radio saying "Terminate, Terminate the chase" Thank God 10-99 had enough sense to over ride his dumbass. Why get rid of Merit selection when they pick ones like this?
Hey 6/15/2006 02:09:41 PM
Your thoughts would be funny, if they weren't so sad. No doubt you've been around for awhile. Did you start out like this? If not, when did it happen? Why did YOU let it happen? Oh no, that's right, THE JOB did it to you. If you are honestly that miserable, do yourself a favor and take a leave, maybe 6 months. Or better yet why don't you quit, cash out whatever you have in the pension and move to a little shack somewhere in Wyoming or Montana. Live off the land, get back to nature. You will live a lot longer. I couldn't imagine spending 8 hours in beat car with you, okay maybe 8 hours, but only once, I'll drive AND do the paper, but you're buying lunch.
And yes, I do love Chicago. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. And (oh no...is he actually going to say it) I love being a Chicago Copper, 20 years and counting, wouldn't want to be on ANY other department.
God bless you brother (and I mean it), I'm really sorry that whatever happened to you, happened to you. Good luck.
How many of these TRU 2 year wonders have gone to 35th Street to work for a boss? Is it true that a 28 year old genius, that is supposed to be a medical doctor (kid you not), went from training in 008, to TRU, and is now working for a boss at 35th in 5 years? Now her special friend and FTO is newest Sgt. in TRU. Is it clout or is she just a genius? :o)
Anonymous said...
Hey 6/15/2006 02:09:41 PM
Your thoughts would be funny, if they weren't so sad. No doubt you've been around for awhile. Did you start out like this? If not, when did it happen? Why did YOU let it happen? Oh no, that's right, THE JOB did it to you. If you are honestly that miserable, do yourself a favor and take a leave, maybe 6 months. Or better yet why don't you quit, cash out whatever you have in the pension and move to a little shack somewhere in Wyoming or Montana. Live off the land, get back to nature. You will live a lot longer. I couldn't imagine spending 8 hours in beat car with you, okay maybe 8 hours, but only once, I'll drive AND do the paper, but you're buying lunch.
And yes, I do love Chicago. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. And (oh no...is he actually going to say it) I love being a Chicago Copper, 20 years and counting, wouldn't want to be on ANY other department.
God bless you brother (and I mean it), I'm really sorry that whatever happened to you, happened to you. Good luck.
6/15/2006 08:36:50 PM
Hey no positive posts, your going to ruin for us all.
Nope - Kevin Ryan to 008
Mike Mealer to 013
Chicago officer cleared of drunken driving during visit
By Daphne Duret
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
STUART — Jurors on Tuesday exonerated a Chicago police officer accused of drunken driving while visiting family last year after he said deputies arrested him unfairly.
Martin County sheriff's deputies arrested Albert Medina, 42, an 18-year veteran of the Chicago Police Department, near Indian Street and Willoughby Boulevard early Nov. 8. At issue during the trial was whether deputies gave Medina a chance to take a field sobriety test before they placed him under arrest.
Deputy George Primm said he thought Medina looked impaired and had warned him not to drive when he saw him in a parking lot near Charlie's Bar & Grill, where Medina and a cousin had spent the evening. Primm told jurors he pulled Medina over when he saw him driving erratically a few minutes later and that Medina refused to take a field sobriety test and clenched his muscles when he tried to place him in handcuffs.
"He was in a position where he looked like he was going to start a fight," Primm told jurors.
Defense attorney Gerald Roden argued that Primm never gave Medina adequate opportunity to perform the test, and Medina himself testified that he tensed his muscles to avoid being slammed onto a squad car.
"If I didn't tense up, my face would have probably landed on the hood," Medina said.
Roden pointed to a videotape showing Medina's refusal to submit to a breath test after he was arrested as a sign that he was not intoxicated or belligerent with deputies.
Rumor...Fred Hampton protest at 79th and Essex tomorrow at 2pm. Good luck 4th District. Find a reason to lock those S.O.B.'s up!!!! Make Fred Hampton proud!!!
You guys are such dumb fucks. The gearges on the police department are not related to daleys georges. Asshats will believe anything posted here. Get your facts straight before you start posting lies.
Thnaks for clearing that up Spiro
They don't even spell it the same way, Georgas and Georges;
Spiro is liked in TRU, his brother was loved, Lt. K is also well liked and is good to the p.os. LT. K just got married so your rumors are bullshit, jealous fucks
The tribute to Chester Jaskolka was beautiful: 10:56 could be the next Joseph Wambaugh. I am sorry I didn't know this guy, but I did know a few old time bosses like him, John Martin, Tom Faraguoi and a couple of others.
Are there any bosses like that these days. We need more of them.
6/15/2006 02:09:41 PM ------
i love that POST!!!!!!!!!!
The feds better hurry up and get Daley soon.
If a democrat gets elected president, this investigation will vanish.
I wouldn't worry about the Democrats. If you listen to the media the Democrats will rule the world soon. It's the same old shit they've been selling for the last 20 years. Once the Carl Rove machine starts up it's all over for them. If the dems try to have anyone killed it will be Carl Rove. They don't stand a chance as long as he is calling the shots for the Republicans (not that they arn't their own worst enemy).
The Dems are taking a big hit with the Hired Truck Scandal. The dems depended on these people to deliver the vote. Not just in Chicago, but Cook county, Illinois, Wisconson, Indiana. They would put these worms on buses and have them campaign in other states. It was campaigning paid for with everyones tax dollar. It was a beatiful system. It's being torn down as we speak.
Just so you know Spiro did not train in 010 he trained in 015 and yesI was there, so it's not a rumor. He's was not a bad guy while in 015 but I can't speak for now. And I was wondering the same thing about the spelling of the last names are they related or is it just more b.s. on this blog?
More BS...different spelling...not related.
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