Toothless Watchdog
- The Chicago City Council today appointed an attorney from New York today to investigate accusations of wrongdoing by aldermen -- but not before several council members dismissed the watchdog as essentially toothless.
About an hour after all 50 aldermen voted in favor of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 budget, a relatively acrimonious debate broke out as they considered whether to name Faisal Khan as the city's first legislative inspector general. - Under standards set by the City Council, Khan will only be able to initiate investigations after he gets the go-ahead from the obscure city Board of Ethics, a body that has not found a single instance of wrongdoing by an alderman in 24 years. More than 20 aldermen have gone to prison in that time.
And accusers would need to sign complaints against aldermen, opening them to retribution. Aldermen said Khan, 38, will work part-time for his $60,000 salary. And he will be reliant on the Board of Ethics staff to help him with investigations.
$60,000 for a part time job where he won't be able to investigate a thing. That's more than a full time copper makes starting out, and the cop probably arrests more criminals in a year than this guy will do in a career.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
19 Comments:
50 to Zero vote. I just wish voters would see through the BS and Vote all 50 out of office.
I'm going to vote against the machine until they are gone or I can move away. What ever comes first. If it is to be, I move away first. Then all who want them can have them.
Ten years to go!
.....About an hour after all 50 aldermen voted in favor of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's 2012 budget.....
This means that ALL those Changes Rahm wanted, closing police and fire stations, re-distributing detectives to three areas, changing the entire Command Structure, Duty Assignments, etc. WILL come to pass in the next year, and with FULL CONSENT (they have ALL been taken care of with some little ot big perk) of ALL 50 Aldermen and Women.
Get ready for a Roller-Coaster Ride like you have never seen kiddies.
Wait until they start negotiations on the next contracts!
Rahm has Sharpened his blade and will be coming at us and all the rest of the unions with the entire Council on his side.
Old City Wide Guy.
Fucking all of us with new and expanded taxes and fees and Racoon Eyes pisses away $60,000 like it is jelly beans. That is how these fucks operate. Rape us for money and then find new ways to piss it all away.
All show and no go.
" City Board of Ethics, a body that has not found a single instance of wrongdoing by an alderman in 24 years.
More than 20 alderman have gone to prison in that time ".
The corruption in this State, County & City is a cancerous tumor so malignant, so deeply imbedded, that radiation treatment is the only cure...something in the 5-20 megaton range should do nicely.
How did they find this guy? Ans. They offered the job to every lawyer in the Manhatten NY telephone book and this guy in the K's took it.
He's not a toothless watchdog! He's a future ghost payroller. We need to find out where his full time job will be?
Does he have a brother named Gingus?
Feds?
99% of Chicago Aldermen give the rest a bad name.
If an employee does not complete the ethics test, then a suspension. But there are no penalities for the alderpersons.
Another waste of taxpayer money a toothless clown, like he will really investigate all the rampant criminal activity from the alderthieves!
What a blatant sham
Does he have a brother named Gingus?
11/17/2011 05:35:00 AM
The FTO In 010? Seriously, look him up.
no, Dingus
they sent a khan...to not watch con artists.
How did they find this guy? Ans. They offered the job to every lawyer in the Manhatten NY telephone book and this guy in the K's took it.
He's not a toothless watchdog! He's a future ghost payroller. We need to find out where his full time job will be?
11/17/2011 05:02:00 AM
They offered the job on the internet. You did not have to be a lawyer, but investigation experience, internal and external, was necessary. More than a few of CPD retired old dogs tossed their hat into the ring, all extremely qualified, but 9.5 went to NY for this east coast lawyer guy. For obvious reasons, he didn't want a qualified ex-CPD guy with ethics.
Fuck you Rahmmie
This is like the Waffen SS investigating human rights abuses.
Does he have a brother named Gingus?
11/17/2011 05:35:00 AM
Gingus?? Wow... just... wow. Maybe pick up a history book or a dictionary or something?? Does your browser not have spell-check?
The amazingly idiotic comments and unsubstantiated assumptions being posted -- not necessarily about the inspector general appointment, but personal attacks against Mr. Khan himself -- are shameful and absolutely embarrassing to those making the comments. Perhaps everyone needs to return to the seventh-grade English and history classes they obviously recently skipped (and pay attention this time, kids), and return once enough logic, reason, and factual information has been attained to intelligently comment.
It is ridiculously juvenile to make assumptions about a person you know nothing about, for the simple fact that you oppose the job he's been given. Is it so surprising that someone would take a job -- ANY job -- in this economy? Suddenly that's reason for ridicule and name-calling?? If you have a problem with the politics of the situation, fine. But to personally attack Mr. Khan -- simply for accepting a job he was offered -- is reprehensible and pathetic.
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