Crooked Contributions
- The charity founded by former Chicago first lady Maggie Daley received more than $900,000 in mostly undisclosed contributions from companies subsidized by much-criticized special taxing districts, according to a report released today by the city’s top internal watchdog.
After School Matters got 16 contributions — far more any other private, non-profit charity — found in the fine print of tax increment finance district agreements negotiated by city officials and aldermen under former Mayor Richard Daley, Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s report states.
Ferguson, who has criticized the city’s use of special taxing districts, said city officials were unable to explain exactly how and why charities received money. There is no oversight and no guidelines to evaluate the programs that got money.
So TIF beneficiaries were subsidizing a charity run by the mayor's wife? Can someone open a formal investigation yet? There's a whole boatload of people who need to spend some time in federal prison here. And if it happens to be people with police bodyguards and free drivers, then Rahm can count them among his "1,000" returning to the streets when their principal is spending the next 4 to 8 years behind bars.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
72 Comments:
How astonishing that this is only acknowledged AFTER King Richard II is out of office.
And Emanuel's response? Basically, he said the end justifies the means.
Please put Daley in jail you Pussies! What you can't do any big fish? Fed. Prosecutor must be on the take. Now that is reported, take some action, or you should punch yourself in the face Fitzgerald. Why don't you just wait til he is dead, and then just break the story.
The gonna put Blago in jail and he didnt take a penny Now I see why Daley retired.
I just finished my 2011 ethics training and test. Does anybody else remember if this was covered ? Or how about Jody's rule change that allowed several high ranking staff members to cash out their unused furlo days? I guess that once again I had training in the other set of rules that are only for the un-clouted.
Can someone open a formal investigation?
Hell no! Not with the top criminal's brother as chief of staff to the president!
Hey, Chicago crooks have taken over the country. Get used to it already.
Same charity contribution scam is part of most city bond sales as well. Underwriter makes a directed contribution out of the huge fees received
Is there any wonder why there is a growing Occupy Wall Street movement?
In your face corruption at every level!
We'll ticket a 13 year old girl for disorderly conduct in NYC and overlook 10,000 robo-signed frauds being done PER DAY by the investment bankers.
Not to mention the fraudulent liar loans, inflated and rigged housing appraisals, the investment vehicles that were suppose to represent a group of bundled mortgages with the paperwork missing and mortgages sold multiple times, and the credit default swaps and related misrepresentation by the bankers,
This is not my opinion. This is a fact that the FBI was on record with warning us about and yet nothing is done.
Google it if you're not familiar.
Trillions of dollars in what should be called organized crime and racketeering and not a single person charged let alone prosecuted.
Instead we have a cover-up and bailout operation ongoing. Deal cutting.
Millions of people effected by those crimes, not just here in the states but globally. Our leaders look the other way. No wait.. they don't look the other way they award taxpayer funded bailouts and the thugs get bonuses.
Ohhhh but that 13 year old girl walking in the street to protest the raping of America. We have to bust her and fine her for flaunting the laws. You know "Broken Windows" and all that stuff. We have to show the people, the churls, that these laws mean something. Seriously? WTF?
Seriously.. What's wrong with this picture?
Operation Fast and Furious.
Yeah Google that one too.
Two sets of laws. One for the clouted and one for the rest of us.
It's like watching the fall of the roman empire.
WTF does 'undisclosed contributions' mean? And Ferguson stopped short of saying this was criminal? Sounds a lot like 'pay to play' via the Daley machine.
Was not Maggie the receiver of a substantial salary from these charities?
And that's not counting the $4 million Daley (we) gave the charity 4 days before he left office. Would be interesting to see who is on the payroll and what their salaries are. Hello FOIA?
I am shocked!
Not!!!
The only thing that surprised me, was that only 59% of the contributions made went to the crime family program. I would have thought those numbers would be reversed.
and it surprises everyone? really?
and we have to do ethics evrery year!who is playin who here?
Off topic:
WHY does Bonnie Amado still have a job? It's clear from the overload of pics recently published here on SCC that many of our police stations are far less than environmentally sound (mold, white mold, black mold, crumbling walls and stairs, running water in the locker/shower rooms, etc.). Bonnie is still head of our building services, and it's been clear for some time that she's just there cashing a rather nice paycheck, driving around in a decent M plate Crown Vic, and spending a sizable amount of time on her dept. cell talking about God knows what, because many of our facilities are still in pitiful shape. Can't the City's building services do this lousy of a job alone? Can Rahm really afford her in today's mess of a City budget?
I think it's time someone in power in City Hall take a serious look at eliminating her position, since it is a Dept. job that clearly hasn't been performed well (or to anyone's satisfaction)
in many years. How about it, Inspector General?
Jail time for Ritch IF Nicolae Ceausescu, Sadaam and Mubarak can come down why not RICHARD M. DALEY
all his toadies like Jimbo Balcer too
THESE PEOPLE UNDER ONE PARTY RULE FUCKED THIS CITY FOR YEARS
REMEMBER REMEMBER THE 5th of NOVEMBER V
Why do people keep thinking the Feds will investigate Daley? Wake up, if they were legit the Blago wire would not have been taken down prematurely just to save whomever was coming on the line later in the morning.
Do you really think the FBI was legit in using Whitey Bulger to do dirty work 25 years ago?
Why didn't the Inspector General say something before now. What he just NOW discovered all of this? Nothing will come of this as usual. Instead Rham is going to push it from the headlines by calling city employees deadbeats for not paying fines.
The Company I work for Contributed and recieved a $600,000, City contract its the Chicago Way.
When/Where does the reveloution begin, I have had quite enough of this nonsense. I fear that Government has grown so big, intrusive and intimidating that a meaning correction is impossible. It wont likley get done at the voters booth, there are no good options. Throw the tea into the sea.
Naturally last night the comments section was off for this article in the Sun-Times.
http://tinyurl.com/6kvdn37
Rahm wants you to pay your tickets....or else
http://tinyurl.com/3bz8xkb
Michelle Obama burning through your pocket on her vacations
are you sure? they were just starting to turn their life around.
Here we go again. Where were you phony reporters when our mob mayor was in office supporting his crime family with cash? He would have had hard questions to explain.These two ugly horses have already left the barn,and the door was left wide open.
OMG!! Say it isn't so!! (heavy sarcasm)
The depth of the Daley Crime Family's dirty deeds gets deeper still.
http://tinyurl.com/3h9rurm
Thief id'ed by his underwear exposed by his baggy pants.
3:50 is correct.
Remember his post when you're defending Emanuel's fellow internationalist banksters and plutocrats next May.
Obama is Little richards lap dog! He knows if it wasn't for Daley he never would have got elected to any office in illinois! He won't let anything happen to the short bastard and he won't let anything happen to the half fingered fuck we call mayor now. All 3 should be behind bars!
Sun-times was accepting comments on the article and then deleted them. Wonder if some of the comments were getting into the legally actionable territory.
I'm sorry but theres a growing sentiment on our side that maybe those protesters have a very valid point and Rahm might be in for a very unpleasant suprise in May.
I love it how politicians ALWAYS say that contributions do not influence their politics. REALLY ?? IF someone gives me a $5 gift card, I'm already thankful and biased towards that person. How can they continue to say this with a straight face ?
and what is the amount that the city failed to put into our pension fund. under scrutiny, the story would be a eye opener. the big question is, does anyone care?
Recent story about Commonwealth Edison (Excelon) handing out millions of $$$ to different charities. Problem is the money is OUR money we pay for electric service. We have no say in where the money goes. If Edison wants to be so generous let their stockholders use THEIR MONEY to support these charities. Corruption is every where.
And Emanuel's response? Basically, he said the end justifies the means.
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Throwing Mr. & Mrs rj daley in the shithouse will justify all the theivery they are responsible for !! Poor maggie, My Ass !!!!!!! Fuck her too !!!!
Nice article in North avenue Magazine on what a union busting asshole Rahm is. Check it out at northavenuemagazine.com. Very funny.
I'm also gonna throw in with 03:50. Next year you won't be defending military leaders protecting us all from wild-eyed terrorists bent on attacking us. The system still allows Saudis and Paks into the U.S. for all sorts of reasons.
You will be asked to defent international bankers and their minions from both parties here and all major parties overseas. Protect them from liberals and conservatives, young and old, all of us proles who know we've been fleeced, our freedoms destroyed, our wealth burnt. This is the Obamas and the Daleys and the ketchuppy McCains and Chelsea Clinton now on the board of Barry Diller's IACI, etc. etc. etc. Stand in line and hold em back boys. The Daleys and their friends are counting on you to preserve the thin veneer of THEIR civilization.
Let's start a petition to Fitzgerald, specifically asking that US Attorney investigate Daley corruption:
TIF monies
TIF monies directed to Maggie
Vanecko pension role
Vanecko assault
Patrick Daley sewer company
Patrick Daley O'Hare contract
etc, etc, etc.
Its almost like that 6 degrees of seperation kevin bacon game. Daley tells whatever manager is in charge of TIF funds that all eligible companies have to give to this charity. The mgr informs the company in question of this detail. The company contacts After School Matters and donates. The board at the charity accepts the money and awards Maggie a 6 digit salary. She, in turn, brings the money back to Shortshanks and the circle is complete(only 5 degrees in this instance though I'm sure there are a few more middlemen involved). Let's start a new game called 6 degrees of seperation from shortshanks and find out how many more convoluted pay-to-play circles he has. Blago screwed up by not including enough middlemen.
What charities are the rest of the clan involved in? The IG should check their tax returns and see where they are making their money. I know there will be a lot of income that isn't reported, but its a start
Why is the city of Chicago giving over $50 million of our tax dollars to a charity anyway? They have not addressed this issue. If this is such a great program then the city should run it not under the guise of a charity with a multimillion administrative cost. The IG didn't go deep enough as usual. Stop overcharging citizens property taxes to fund the tiff slush fund.
O.T. The NTSB statistics show that every 10 minutes a man gets knocked down by a drunk driver....and he's getting mighty pissed-off about it.
This is a message for F.O.P. We have heard from a few of our dedicated retired police officers who have worked over 30 years, and have to pay over $700 a month for medical. Why do some retired p.o, have to have only 22 years but are 55 years of age, get free medical and a military bump.
If we have a lawyer interested in a REVERSE age discrimination lawsuit, please let us know.All the officers who have served our country, thank you, but let
us also take care of the guys that worked the streets in chicago also. F.O.P. please respond.
"It's easy to commit a crime, not getting caught takes brains." Whitey Bulger.
Anyone else?
This is also a nice way to funnel money to clouted teachers and administrators.
In response to KING RAHM trying to put some retired guys on the desk, remember mr. Shields some of the retired coppers have less time then the guy they want to send back to the street. I hope you are backing all police officers, not just the few that recieved 55 and free medical and want to double dip. F.O.P. Please respond!!!!!!!!
But the "G' Would come after you for taking a double sawbuck.
Daley should get the same farwell that Ceausescu and his wife received. A firing squad. So many people hated them (Are you listening Shankster?) that they had an overwhelming amount of volunteers for the firing squad.
Fitzgerald is an ass kissing pussy. A punk fuck. He fucked Scooter Libby when he knew that he didn't leak info about Vallery Phlame. He's a publicity seeking asshole.
dont worry the g-8 WILL FIGURE OUT R PROBLEMS AND SOLVE THEM.
WE WILL GRAB UP GOOFY COLLEGE KIDS AND CUFF THEM WHILE FAT CATS EAT STEAK AND LOBSTER.
THE CITY WILL LIE TO US AND THEN CUT R PENSIONS AND SALARY.
THE SUPE WILL FLY BACK TO NEWARK (WHEREVER THAT IS) IN A FEW YEAR AFTER HE SCREWS UP EVERYTHING AND SOME NEW DIP-WAD WILL LEAD US.
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK IT IS A CALLING...
And Mag-it was payed 250 to 300 hundred thousand per year. Non profit????
And that's not counting the $4 million Daley (we) gave the charity 4 days before he left office. Would be interesting to see who is on the payroll and what their salaries are. Hello FOIA?
10/05/2011 05:48:00 AM
You can't FOIA a non-profit organization. FOIA only applies to public bodies.
That entire family is corrupt! Starting from ole man Daley on down the line. Maggie married into corruption and is loving every minute of it. The future Daley members are learning fast though.
Maggie Daley did a good job on that school, I think its called Gallery 37, right across the street from the Cultural Center on Randolph, The school teaches kids to cook, Art work etc, alot of kids get good jobs via daley connections, but i'm sure alot of city money got funneled to it. Richie used this place to entertain high level friends here at this school.
On Topic of Crooked:
Anonymous said...
Talk around City Hall yesterday was that former exempt Chiczewski has a new job as head of security for the WATER DEPT. Does Rahm really need this six-figure post, with so many budget problems with the city, or is this just another clout spot for the connected?
Did the city ever have a head of security post for
the water dept. before now?
10/01/2011 01:09:00 PM
Ralph has had a golden spoon up his ass for years. He retired as a deputy chief then was hired as a deputy chief for university of Chicago. Pension plus a fat new salary and car. Now he is head of the water department? Not too greedy for the retired guy.
10/01/2011 10:20:00 PM
True?
Recent story about Commonwealth Edison (Excelon) handing out millions of $$$ to different charities. Problem is the money is OUR money we pay for electric service. SO THE WALL STREET PROTEST ISNT THAT FAR OFF????? remember the cop is between the people and the mob who do we side with Im with the people after 16yrs of this BS Clouted system Let tehm burn it down
Anonymous said...
Off topic:
WHY does Bonnie Amado still have a job?
10/05/2011 07:24:00 AM
She is TOTALLY incompetent, and does not like the police at all, but she is way connected through her elderly husband.
Corporate CEO's working to push the bought and paid for puppet politicians to take away city pensions so that it will enable the CEO to get a bigger bonus is the way I see it.
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Abbott Laboratories chief Miles White had a pointed message for the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Illinois House when he met with them recently: "We have options."
The statement, confirmed by reliable sources, was an unmistakable reference to the fact that the huge biotech firm owns a ton of property in southern Wisconsin, property that it could use to expand, rather than adding to its Illinois workforce.
Mr. White's message was the latest sign that business is getting serious about its drive to get the Illinois General Assembly to reform the state's crumbling employee pension plans, preferably in the fall veto session. And, in fact, the biz guys may be as close to winning as they've ever been.
Read more: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/section/blogs?blogID=greg-hinz&plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&uid=1daca073-2eab-468e-9f19-ec177090a35c&plckPostId=Blog%3a1daca073-2eab-468e-9f19-ec177090a35cPost%3a24ce62ed-9d67-41a6-8b73-cf3057a0dc7c&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest#ixzz1Zy3lT3N7
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King Rham The first has started going after city workers big time. Streets and Sans had the recycle business given to Waste Management on a trial basis.
When the campaign contributions come in, and they will, they will stand to get all the business leaving city workers out in the cold
I though Waste Management had mob connections but that would not bother the new King of Chicago Rham I
Give us more tax breaks or we'll behead these peoples careers and you'll lose tax revenue is how the story should read.
Can we stop the madness.
This is never-ending with these corporations.
Are the so-called best and brightest unwilling or unable to make a profit without special tax treatment from politicians who also empower themselves by playing favorites awarding taxpayer funded gifts for their friends?
Sears ups it's extortion attempt..oh sorry, scratch that...I mean ups their pressure for tax breaks under the tired old guise of saving jobs.
I had thought that the United States doesn't negotiate with terrorist?
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Sears executives have visited potential new headquarters sites in Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, but say they remain open to negotiating with Illinois officials to keep the retailer’s headquarters in Hoffman Estates.
The Sears leaders visited potential sites, toured offices and met with municipal, business, state and economic development officials in Austin and in Columbus, sources said Wednesday.
Sears officials expect to make a decision by the end of the year. The retailer is one of a number of businesses, including CME Group, that have threatened to move headquarters and some operations out of state because of state tax burdens.
No one from the Austin or Columbus mayors’ offices or economic development departments or from the two governors’ offices would comment Wednesday on the meetings.
Sears CEO Louis D’Ambrosio met in late August with Illinois Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) to discuss the state’s willingness to extend Sears’ existing tax incentives.
On Wednesday, Sears spokesman Chris Brathwaite issued a statement saying: “Our commitment to our associates and shareholders is to be thorough in our review of our opportunities in the hopes of resolving this matter in the near future.
more: http://www.suntimes.com/business/8052389-420/sears-visits-ohio-texas-as-hq-options.html
The Bankers are just another group of corrupt bastards out to screw us!
"Who says Crime Doesn't Pay" !!!!
rich & maggie
HA...the transfer of wealth. Follow the money trail..
UAW workers are currently reviewing a contract renewal offer from Ford that if approved union members will receive a $6,000 dollar signing bonus.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2011/10/ford-has-tentative-new-deal-with-uaw/1
Meanwhile in Chicago, Rahm does a head tax deal cutting Fords head tax in half thereby depriving the city of $23 million dollars in revenue.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/8048231-418/mayor-emanuels-surprise-cuts-job-killer-head-tax-in-half.html
Any guesses on what's going to get cut to make-up for that $23 million dollars in lost tax revenue?
Yeah, yeah..I know, I know...the standard reply is that this will create and/or save jobs so we'll have more in the end...However haven't we been hearing this story for at least five years now or more!?! I think so!
The Playboy Club TV show wasn't that good, but it's odd that it was yanked after only 3 episodes with none of the already filmed episodes scheduled to be shown. It's being immediately replaced next week by a hastily thrown together news show.
There has been a recurring story line about about Daley the first and corruption, RJD was shown asking for and accepting bribes to endorse candidates, and dinner part conversation about controlling jobs to get money.
It wouldn't take too many calls from his son at the White House to get this show off the air asap.
Other shows that are worse manage to be on the air, but they don't refer to our royal family,
The State's #1 ranked Abbott Labs will relocate their base of operations to Wisconsin while Sears HQ goes to Columbus, Ohio.
Patrick if you can't hear us now I you must be wrapped up in the bottle since blagos conviction. Or the alternative is your hoping for that supreme court spot and do not want to make any waves to upset obama and his socialist henchmen. So I guess this is about the time when you should be asking yourself who do I represent, and who am I fighting for? Patrick you are the only one who can go after the real criminals. We are jailing the bottom of the crime scale who are stealing candy bars. We need you to go after the real criminals who are stealing and have been stealing the gold bars like our former mayor and our current mayor when he was at Freddie Mac. If you don't do it "we the people" will never again mean a thing. Can you hear us now?
How does daley take a post at a law firm that brokered the parking meter deal 3 months after leaving office? Comon Patrick! Is truth, justice and the American Way now being replaced by The Chicago Way? The American people are being backed into a corner by politicians and big business and together they are trying to amass everything the good hard working people have worked for all their lives. Don't think we're going to stand by idle to much longer, do you?
There has been a recurring story line about about Daley the first and corruption, RJD was shown asking for and accepting bribes to endorse candidates, and dinner part conversation about controlling jobs to get money.
It wouldn't take too many calls from his son at the White House to get this show off the air asap.
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The truth really hurts doesn't it daley crime family !!!!!!
Seriously.. What's wrong with this picture?
Operation Fast and Furious.
Yeah Google that one too.
Two sets of laws. One for the clouted and one for the rest of us.
Like I said before: Only Fools Follow The Rules.
You can't FOIA a non-profit organization. FOIA only applies to public bodies.
10/05/2011 08:05:00 PM
But you can look at their annual report posted online.
You will see some names listed as exec.'s and contributors that are familiar.
You can't FOIA a non-profit organization. FOIA only applies to public bodies.
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you can get the reports they are required to file with the IRS though.
I think a fair number are online.
Anyone else wonder if the other items on the TIF Gift list were actually given\received?
Did those "Scholarships" come through?
Who did they go to?
What schools did they help?
Who decided who got them, the Alderthief?
Maybe I am just TOO Cynical....LMAO
Ask some teacher's that you know, how many students in the CPS that they know benefit from "After School Matters"
I'll place a bet that it's not many.
They do a great show when the media is around though. Busing in what they need to show on the news and all.
The feds won't do a damn thing as long as Obamarama and his henchman Daley's bro are in the White House.
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