Still Hiring Trucks

Weren't there supposed to be some "lifetime bans" instituted after all this scandal broke? Or was that only with firms doing business with the state?

• The blizzard of costs to clean up Chicago’s third-largest snowstorm is starting to pile up — with $8 million in emergency contracts awarded in just one day, three of them to former Hired Truck companies.

  On Feb. 3, the day after it stopped snowing, the Daley administration awarded 32 emergency contracts of $250,000 apiece, all of them tied to snow removal, storm cleanup or rescue.

• The list also includes three companies that rode the Hired Truck gravy train before the Sun-Times blew the whistle on a program that paid clout-heavy companies — some with ties to organized crime — to do little or no work.

Nice to see the Outfit is still getting its piece of the pie. We supposed Shortshanks was overjoyed to be able to pay back some favors to the mob after the entire "No-lympic" fiasco shorted the mafia-connected construction firms of billions in skim.