OEMC Scandal
- Hundreds of thousands of dollars were wasted, employees were placed on hidden payrolls and notebook computers went missing at the city department that oversees the city 911 center, according to an audit released today by Inspector General Joseph Ferguson. All of those issues occurred because “internal controls were not adequate to prevent waste and misconduct,” according to the audit of the Office of Emergency Management and Communication, which also oversees the city’s 311 call center.
The audit alleges a series of costly errors, saying some have been addressed while others still need attention
History buffs will recall that under one of the previous administrators, OEMC was a hotbed of missing cash, crooked contracts and incompetent management. Does anyone remember the name connected to most of that under-reported disaster? Three syllables. Rhymes with "luberman."
Just another in a long line of departments used to hide political heavyweights stealing a paycheck.
Just another in a long line of departments used to hide political heavyweights stealing a paycheck.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
44 Comments:
Aw, jeez, as i just said to someone, "Having OEMC between you and the police is like having an HMO between you and your doctor."
Soaking up money, slowing everything down, and serving no good purpose...
All this crap is coming out of the woodwork as Daley cleans out his desk. Lots of surprises for the Ballerino, huh?
Yeah, sure, Trotter's the guy to become Police Supt. after what he did here...
This city is one big cancerous tumor of corruption.
How about the S & SAN. story about the 6 figure O.T. $$$ that appox. 46 employees " earned " last year.
Winner at $146 thousand...Erasumos Berrios, related to the guy that's gonna raise the property tax cuz you know, the Police are " greedy "
Then Quinn hires a political contributor of big, big money to his campaign...story on the CHGO. Breaking news blog.
SCC:
What about the RALLY Saturday??
FOP Current Updates
April 5, 2011
"We Are One" Rally 04/05/11
We are all aware of the difficulties that Police and Fire Fighters are facing in Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, and other states across the United States.
Please join the Fraternal Order of Police, Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois, and the Chicago Fire Fighters Union in a show of unity on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at the "We Are One" rally. We need to get our message out Loud and Clear. We need to show our strength in numbers.
Participants will meet at the Northwest corner of Clark and Randolph where they will depart at 12:45 pm with a march to Daley Plaza. The rally will conclude in Daley Plaza at 2:00 pm
Can we ask the Crystal Ball unit to predict how long it will take Rahm to rid the Department of all those civilian director's and commanders that Daley put in over the years. You know all those police haters and incompetent ones.
A scandal? In Chicago? How could that happen? Who would have imagined that?
That's were my $2.50 is going every month!
It's about time. You need to purge that place of all those patronage workers starting with the guy whose name rhyhms with
Den-of-cat-wizz
No wonder booberman left the Board of Ed just a few weeks after shorty announced he was leaving.
Was he hoping out of sight out of mind?
OEMC was a hotbed of missing cash, crooked contracts and incompetent management.
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And this is different from every other city department (including CPD) in what way?
Please tell me it all started at the time Trotter ran OEMC.
i am not surprise god only know what else these people are hiding .
One person in charge of it all at the time!
Ron Hubermann
Start there with your Federal indictments!
Da Pelon
What other CPD exempts worked with Huberman at 911? What happened to the other bosses from 911? Huberman suddenly resigns? One is in the federal lockup? Who is left? Inquiring minds want to know..
Wasn't Cortez Trotter at the OEMC for a while? Honestly, I can't remember.
Everytime they take control away from the sworn Chicago Police Officers, trouble starts.
In order to "save" money, they spend twice as much, steal tons of cash and blame the taxpayers.
Our unit wrote a grant for laptops and got it but we never saw the laptops......where did they go?
OEMC was a hotbed of missing cash, crooked contracts and incompetent management.
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And this is different from every other city department (including CPD) in what way?
4/08/2011 06:16:00 AM
Is this why they moved our very own JL and crew over there.
Anonymous said...
... All this crap is coming out of the woodwork as Daley cleans out his desk...
4/08/2011 12:10:00 AM
The era of PLAUSIBLE DENI-ABILITY will continue!
These kind of things will trickle out for years, and guess what the company line will be... Mayor Daley was UNAWARE that this was occurring and is disappointed that the guy he put in charge had allowed this to happen during his watch.
No "investigation" will EVER implicate the Stuttering Prick.
Shocking!
I'd settle for a dispatcher that stays awake and maybe speaks english.
No such luck!
The Daley Crime Family will continue to fleece the citizens of Chicago and an occasional sacrificial lamb will do a short stint in the Federal pen for corruption, after which the 'Family' will reward him for keeping his mouth shut. In the meantime, where are BILLION$ of our tax dollars going?
What a frickin sewer we live in and no way for us to do ANYTHING to stop it!
Business as usual for the Chicago mob.
OEC opened in 1995. In the ensuing 16 years, this organization has suffered through no less than 10 people in the top spot. That figures to approximately 1 1/2 years service for each of them, but it is actually less because there were many acting directors in there, also. It is no wonder this organization is in chaos. RMD used it as a toy.
We are the only big city that doesn't have a Master Exercise Practitioner running our disaster center. All because clout rules.
That rally downtown this weekend ia an Andy Thayer production. Should we take part in anything that this fuck is involved in? He works for Loevy & Loevy who pay him to organize protests to set up situations to sue the city.
OK, good, so when will something really be done? When will the offenders go to jail and their bank accounts and assets seized? You can investigate anything till the Cows come home, but if it isn't followed up with results and punishment, it is then just a waste of Taxpayers dollars.
In order to recoup these losses caused by Trotter-Huberman, the ICC (Quinn-Madigan) will increase the
9-1-1 surcharge to $9.50 monthly per land/cellular line. Internet and cellular entertainment surcharges will increase to $ 11.50 per line.
In addition, only certain OEMC managers will be suspended for 3 days.
The response we can expect but hasn't come yet;
Huberman-Trotter: " I dunno".
Will they be on ShortShanks Farewell Float (sponsored by Oprah) along Michigan Ave?
The "We Are One Rally" is also sponsored by the Socialists, Anarchists, Communists, and the likes of police-hater Andy Thayer. Don't support them. They only want to use you.
Thats always the problem when political hacks run a department... but we all know that. The waste is incredible.
One of the reasons OT is out of control is because of the refusal of supervisors to take action against their friends who are the abusers. The medical roll is too high and if they come to work they dont pull their weight. OT is used to carry the dogs and supervisors dont write up the assholes while the good workers are getting shit on.
Tell us more about the Streets and San OT scandal.....That Dept. has been crooked forever....bet alot of the higher ups are getting kick backs from the guys getting all the big dollars in OT..
Wasn't Luberman at the helm for a lot of this shit??
He's got the anithesis of the Midas touch yet he keeps getting top spots.......Fuck you Ritchie Daley.
That's were my $2.50 is going every month!
4/08/2011 04:30:00 AM
You are silly!!! Hahahahhaaha!!
Anonymous said...
... Luberman... got the anithesis of the Midas touch....
4/08/2011 03:39:00 PM
The Cheese Touch?
OEMC was a great hiding place for the who's who of patronage. It is a joke with a bunch of inept people there. I worked there for one year in a lower position and surprise I was hired legit-probably one of the very few there. I could not take it with all the incompetence there by those are in charge. God forbid Chicago has a real terroist threat. By the way,loads of clout baby cops/fire there too, not doing a whole lot.
The IG knows its alot worse than he's saying.
Go visit any other OEMC and you'll see the difference-I have been to NY,DC,Boston,Nashville and a few others and there is a more serious tone about them.
And those OEMCs don't even have half the cameras Chicago does.
Also, tours are given regularly to Chinese,Middle Easterners,etc etc. no secrets in Chicago,lol. Other OEMCs are like Fort Knox.
Return the police to Dispatching i know some stil work there just a thought
Anonymous said...
... All this crap is coming out of the woodwork as Daley cleans out his desk...
4/08/2011 12:10:00 AM
"The era of PLAUSIBLE DENI-ABILITY will continue!
"These kind of things will trickle out for years, and guess what the company line will be... Mayor Daley was UNAWARE that this was occurring and is disappointed that the guy he put in charge had allowed this to happen during his watch."
--4/08/2011 10:51:00 AM
Hell, you can't get Daley off the TV all of a sudden -- the son-of-a-bitch ran and hid during the blizzard, but now him and Ald. Sandy Jackson were running around town today, taking all kinds of credit for the "46 schools" Daley says he opened in his Sanctuary City.
At your expense.
For the benefit of those who don't belong here.
Don't do me any more favors, huh, guy?
The shameless Sandy Jackson -- you saw her di-recting things up in the cab of the snowplow this past winter, making sure her block was being cleared to her Imperial Satisfaction -- is involved in this summer's CloutFest music venue out at USS South Works.
Has anyone told the Chicago Police Department about this two-day mass event yet? I mean, they might want to detail a couple of cars over there, maybe even a sergeant...
I think they're really scared that "190 North," so to speak, is getting overrun -- no place left for people like Maggie to shop. I think a light bulb came on there, and USS'll be the new Grant Park for lower-class, dangerous, dirty events, as they see them.
They sure as hell can't build thousands of condos there anytime soon -- as the fifty-year development plan predicates.
They'll never say that, of course, but you can better believe they eat lunch with the Boul Mich crowd and the Water Tower people are bitching like anything about the "wilding" and flash-mob store ripoffs.
I KNOW I read something very good here on the board before this even happened -- I don't know if it was SCC or someone else, but it was a description of Rahm Emanuel's Hollywood friends and specifically his connections in the mass-music business.
We seem to be making what you might call a "smooth transition" here as far as power, influence, and profit.
This being Chicago, whatever is actually happening is invariably even more devious and convoluted than a normal person might be able to imagine.
"In order to 'save' money, they spend twice as much, steal tons of cash and blame the taxpayers."
--4/08/2011 09:42:00 AM
Substitute "patients" for "taxpayers," and you've just described an HMO.
"Health management."
"Emergency management."
Didn't Daley just sell the city recycling program to "Waste Management" while we were looking the other way for a minute?
Management.
"Tell us more about the Streets and San OT scandal.....That Dept. has been crooked forever....bet a lot of the higher ups are getting kick backs from the guys getting all the big dollars in OT.."
--4/08/2011 03:28:00 PM
Notice that vast silence from over by the Park District?
Anonymous said...
Wasn't Cortez Trotter at the OEMC for a while? Honestly, I can't remember.
4/08/2011 09:21:00 AM
Yes. He arrived in 2001 just before 9-11 and stayed until April 2004. He and his sidekick, Vickie Wilson, were no loss when they moved over to CFD.
That's what happens when Fed money goes straight to OEMC. Many police functions have been transferred to OEMC and now we know why...the money coming in. Millions. The PD never saw much of it. Instead cameras and other crap was bought.
Our unit wrote a grant for laptops and got it but we never saw the laptops......where did they go?
4/08/2011 09:56:00 AM
Ask Weis et al.
OT - WTF?
Family, Friends Stunned By Officer's Death
Probe under way after cop put in coma after accidently inhaling cleaner dies
Kevin Robinson's family and friends were stunned early last month when the 15-year Chicago police veteran was hospitalized after they say he accidently inhaled a cleaning substance at the Morgan Park Police District station.
Robinson's lungs all but shut down, forcing doctors at Advocate Trinity Hospital to place the 42-year-old in a medically induced coma until he died Monday, his family said.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/news/
local/ct-met-police-officer-death-20110408,0,7218233.story
@ 06:51:00 PM
DING!
U.S. Steel South Works site will be Grant Park South!
Good thoughts on that one...
We laughed our asses off when shorty was yammering & farting about building homes on that environmental monstrosity...
That is a Superfund eligible site to our best recollection and it is throughly unfit for human habitation due to the steel manufacturing wastes in the soil.
But shorty wants to keep his construction buddies fat for the next 50 years...
Wonder if they'll dig him up to kick him in his ass when they start dying from stirring the pot of toxic soup.
Heh... Greedy bastards. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
A new "southern" Grant Park will be just the ticket during the summer months...
Has anyone told the Chicago Police Department about this two-day mass event yet? I mean, they might want to detail a couple of cars over there, maybe even a sergeant...
4/08/2011 06:51:00 PM
not to worry, i got it covered.
Chalkie
The politicans steal everything. They are entitled. After the money is gone they blame collective bargining, and try to blame the unions. Unions arn't much better then our politicans, think where would we be without them?
"Tell us more about the Streets and San OT scandal.....That Dept. has been crooked forever....bet a lot of the higher ups are getting kick backs from the guys getting all the big dollars in OT.."
TOMMY THE THUMB BYRNE NEED WE SAY MORE??
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