Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Airport Lawsuit

  • A judge today ordered Chicago Aviation Commissioner Rosemarie Andolino to testify in a pre-trial deposition in connection with a lawsuit United and American airlines filed against the city over financing the expansion of O’Hare International Airport.

    Cook County Circuit Judge Richard Billik denied a motion by the city’s attorneys saying that Andolino is too busy to testify and that other city aviation officials could fill in for her. A date for Andolino to give her deposition was not immediately set.

    The airlines are seeking to stop Chicago from selling about $1 billion in bonds, without airline approval, to start building the final phase of new O’Hare runways, at a projected cost of $3.4 billion. The airlines contend the city's borrowing plan to finance construction will cost the carriers $7.7 billion in debt service.

We had never heard of the "too busy to testify" defense until today. We'll have to try that on for size one day soon. but here's a woman, politically connected as all hell, attempting to saddle the city and airlines with a near insurmountable amount of debt just to keep connected construction firms in business.

We can see exactly why Shortshanks and his people don't want her testifying.

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26 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Like the guy yelled as the judge sentenced him to prison, "Five years? I don't have time for that!"

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2/08/2011 12:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Will there be a Funeral in the near future ? Dead folks can't testify !!

2/08/2011 01:11:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just tell the Judge I'm busy. I have you time for your silly games. Don't you know who I am?

2/08/2011 01:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yeah digging up thousands of dead bodies to expand the airport.

Where they gonna put them -- dump em in one of those snow melters out at Ohare. May you people rot in hell from your greed.

2/08/2011 01:57:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's why Daley is gonna start building more breakwalls in the lake, if he can't get his runways the next best thing is to put the cement in the lake. Gotta keep the $$$$ flowing to the connected contractors!


Where are the indictments?????

2/08/2011 02:20:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Just imagine how many runways could be built if the City didn't have to pay all those pensions!

No wonder Andolino was crying when Daley announced he wasn't running again, she will see an end to the gravy train and might have to look for work!

memo to J. Maurer: I hope you sue the fuck out of that bitch and take her for a bundle!

2/08/2011 05:34:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC,

All due respect. We don't agree on a lot of things...you say the Administration is scared of her testifying? As if she would actually TELL the TRUTH?

I don't think so.

2/08/2011 05:47:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Where is John Harris?

Most important man for both Daley and Rahm's future.

Darryl Issa is getting interested.

2/08/2011 05:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Fred C. Dobbs said...

Isn't she a " public servant "? As a taxpayer, I'm not getting my " moneys worth". What does Raham " Digit " Emmanuel have to say about this?
Hey Lisa Madigan, how about investigating this instead of trying to fuck over Cmdr. Burge? Hiding your head in the sand brings disgrace to this State & your Office. Does contempt of court mean anything? I thought not.

2/08/2011 06:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I love to see this miserable bitch shake in her boots. If she had not been Daley's childhood friend, she would have been working in some Bridgeport greasy spoon. She is a classic example of how screwed up this city is. Hey Rose, go stock up on Depends, you're gonna need em!

2/08/2011 08:09:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The beauty queen might have to actually justify what she does every day? Daley cannot allow her to talk without her written statements? Imagine Andolino being questioned about the airport and the budeget wihout her lawyers? She must have lots to say. No one is too busy to refuse a judical order.

2/08/2011 08:41:00 AM  
Anonymous An Old Sergeant said...

Yeah digging up thousands of dead bodies to expand the airport.
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Hey, let's have a little respect here. Those dead bodies are voters you know.

2/08/2011 09:00:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I'm still surprised that shortshanks wanted to move all those bodies from the cemetery adjacent to O'Hare.
ALL of them voted Democratic in the last 50 elections!

2/08/2011 09:04:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Actually, the too busy to testify defense is well established in the law. It's mostly used against people who sue large institutions, then demand that all the top people in the organization give depositions. People sue the City all the time over routine sorts of things, then noisily demand Mayor Daley's depostion about something he personally knows nothing about. They think if they can be annoying enough, the City will just settle. And, believe it or not, the courts are on to that kind of stupid game.

The difference here: Rosie's testimony probably is relevant and useful in this case. They're not just harrassing the Dept. of Aviation.

And the judge understood that.

2/08/2011 09:46:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have a buddy connected with the airlines. They want to get her under oath.
Can she spell PERJURY??

2/08/2011 10:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Too busy to go to a court deposition. How many of us "servants" tried to call off court for family matters and get deviated?
I agree with prior poster, get ready for another aspirin overdose or riverbank headshot.
How about this "coincidence".... Newark Int.Airport has a poweroutage appx an hour before Ohare experiences a power outage yesterday afternoon.
Overloaded paper shredders????
Obama's shovel ready jobs, are those the grave diggers for the cemetery ShortShanks is robbing?
Did Rahmmy bring up airport expansion in his campaign yet ,or funding for former Meigs Field, and what about JJ Jr's Budweiser Field in Peotone.
One way or another taxpayers will be paying for an airport to nowhere.

2/08/2011 10:10:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wonder if they will question Rosie about how she got that job? After all she was nothing but a gofer for "silent vic"Victor Reyes who was daley's intergovernmental chief,and when the scandals broke Rosie gets the big overpaid no experience job,

Wonder if she will be on the hot seat and asked about the multi-millions she has spread around to the criminal daley family and friends program! Goodbye Rosie hope your not to busy to go to prison! Guess now is not a good time to keep your mouth shut girl! Talk rosie talk save yourself and your husband former 12 ward alderman fary!

2/08/2011 10:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

During the blizzard press conferences at OEMC, Andolino sounded like a gifted speaker, as compared to the number of the "deeze-dems-doze" guys taking turns at the microphone.

2/08/2011 12:10:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the feds are a bunch of bitches,anyone can see all this bullshit corruption [meter deal,airport,hired trucks,stealing from our pensions]when will it end,im afraid never!

2/08/2011 03:39:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"That's why Daley is gonna start building more breakwalls in the lake, if he can't get his runways the next best thing is to put the cement in the lake. Gotta keep the $$$$ flowing to the connected contractors!"

--2/08/2011 02:20:00 AM

Just a split-second after the last snowbound car was dug out and hauled away, its wipers twisted into the air as a "checked this one" by emergency responders searching for life, Dick "Mouthful Of Spit" Durbin was on TV calling for the Corps of Engineers and other agencies to do a "through review of Lake Shore Drive and Lake Michigan."

Probably Lake Shore Drive will "need" to be rebuilt from one end to the other, and the lake dug out deeper, lined with concrete, painted blue like a swimming pool, and then refilled.

After that, we start pouring concrete for Chicago's own full-sized replica of the Pyramids of Giza.

Talk about cubic yards! A line of idling cement trucks stretching from here to the galaxy Andromeda, with every driver yelling to be let in next before the stuff starts to set up...

2/08/2011 04:20:00 PM  
Blogger SCC said...

All due respect. We don't agree on a lot of things...you say the Administration is scared of her testifying?

We didn't say any such thing. Go back and read it again.

2/08/2011 06:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
Will there be a Funeral in the near future ? Dead folks can't testify !!

2/08/2011 01:11:00 AM

Absolutely! It's the Chicago way of doing business.
But ask the Crys-Ball unit; they know.

2/08/2011 07:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looks like Walsh Construction will be gearing up for that Lake Michigan/LSD project that is sure to come.
Oh...Bet the house. When the questions start regarding O'Hare, she will crumble.
Hired Truck is over, Silver Shovel, and Grey Lord, those were nothing. City can't push the Airlines into a corner and not expect some dirty laundry to be thrown at the front door of city hall for all to see.
Once these depositions start, wait.....wait......it's all been on the square ALL these years at O'Hare.

2/09/2011 12:30:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Script for a future movie..called "The Rape of Bensenville"

Rosie girl--"oh Victor, what do I do? I did everything you asked. I used all the guys you said to use."

Victor--"keep your mouth shut, when you get out we'll take care of you."

Victor--"Dick,I think she might talk"

Dick--"call Jimmy, he knows da guys dat used to be in the old 1st ward. They'll make sure"

2/09/2011 09:37:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I apologize:

From the following: "...here's a woman, politically connected as all hell, attempting to saddle the city and airlines with a near insurmountable amount of debt just to keep connected construction firms in business.

We can see exactly why Shortshanks and his people don't want her testifying."; I'd inferred the Admin was concerned about her testimony under oath.

2/10/2011 01:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Victor--"keep your mouth shut, when you get out we'll take care of you."

ROTFLMMFFAO!!! I'd trust that half-breed inbred motherfucker to "take care of" SHIT as far as I could throw his hefty burrito sized head!!!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

2/10/2011 01:45:00 AM  

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