Quick Hits
All sorts of minor nonsense that people are talking about. Remember this drunk?
- Despite the video, Sarah Naughton was acquitted in a criminal trial. However now, she is facing a different judgment – this time from her peers.
People might remember the viral video of then-Assistant State's Attorney Sarah Naughton outside a Northside lingerie store in 2012.
Store employees called police after they said a heavily intoxicated Naughton caused a commotion in the store, flashed her badge and then bit a security worker.
Inside the police car, Naughton is caught on camera wriggling out of her handcuffs, slamming her foot against the window and taking a swing at an officer.
Despite all the video evidence, a Cook County judge acquitted Naughton and her boyfriend of all charges a few months later -- a move that stunned the police who handled the case.
Naughton was set to return to her job as a Cook County prosecutor until FOX 32 obtained the police car video. State's Attorney Anita Alvarez fired her the same day.
Now, FOX 32 has learned Naughton is facing another legal hurdle.
Well, when daddy is a Machine connected lawyer, all things are possible, even an acquittal in the face of incontrovertible video evidence. Hopefully, the ARDC people are from downstate and more than a little unimpressed with a loud-mouth politically-connected moron with a cannibalistic streak who can't hold her liquor.
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Recovery? Yeah, it's leaving Illinois further behind:
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Recovery? Yeah, it's leaving Illinois further behind:
- The unemployment rate fell in all of Illinois’ metropolitan statistical areas in July, according to a press release from the Illinois Department of Employment Security. In fact, unemployment rates have fallen in all metro areas for four consecutive months, which seems like welcome news. But these numbers are only encouraging at face value.
As is the case with the superficial state unemployment drop, we can get the true picture these areas’ economic health by comparing them to areas in other states and expanding the time frame.
The fact is, Illinois’ economic recovery is severely lagging.
Read the whole thing. Illinois is a dead-state walking.
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And just to drive home the point in the above story, another big corporate name is bailing on Illinois:
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And just to drive home the point in the above story, another big corporate name is bailing on Illinois:
- Reports have surfaced indicating that Baxter International Inc., a biotechnology giant that has been based in Illinois since the 1930s, is looking to make a move to Boston.
According to the Boston Business Journal:
“Local real estate sources have confirmed that the international biotechnology company seeking to relocate its corporate headquarters to a major office and laboratory complex in Cambridge — a stealthy effort known locally as Project Tiger— is in fact Baxter International Inc.”
Baxter announced in March that it is in the process of splitting its business into two separate arms: one focused on biopharmaceuticals and the other focused on the sale of medical products, according to the Boston Business Journal.
But when the company made that announcement, the stated plan was to have both headquarters remain in Deerfield, Ill., according to the Chicago Tribune.
The Boston Business Journal’s sources, however, reported that Baxter is seeking up to 200,000 square feet in Cambridge, Mass. This space will reportedly be home to Baxter’s executive team and other corporate workers. The company will also be adding an additional 200,000 square feet of research and laboratory space by mid-2015.
So not only are they leaving Illinois - they're leaving Illinois AND expanding. Way to go Quinn - Illini-wreck is going to be an understatement by the end of this year.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Say hello to Detroit as we pass them on the way down.
"Another big corprate name is bailing on Illinois" - This is just sickening. I remember my father and grandfather putting food on the table by getting up before the sun came up and trudging off to their manufacting jobs with lunch bucket in hand. Illinois is not silicon valley and most of the manufacturing jobs are gone. Businesses can't make it in Illinois with high wages, high income taxes, high property taxes and corrupt state and city governments looking for handouts every other day. A quick drive through any of the city and suburban business districts will reveal company after company shut down and building after building empty and for sale. The buildings aren't being sold because the property taxes are outrageous. The tax base is gone and the state's death rattle has begun. Of course the businesses that remain are fleeing. Only a fool stays on a sinking ship.
Leaving Illinois I can understand...
...but going to Boston,Tax-a-achusetts ?!?
THX for posting the lawyer one, let's hope she gets what's due.
Blame it on Bush and the radical republicans, but mostly on Bush. Has anyone appealed to Obama?
Come on SCC, when are you going to put those photo-shop skills to use and post a photo of Quinn in full Indian headdress as Chief Illini-Wreck?
History has shown that manufacturing has continuously evolved and in doing so, shed workers. My father could read calipers, micrometers and gauges. I could use a slide rule (I'm old). So what, nobody needs those skills now. If your kids aren't getting As and Bs in math and science, they'd better have a trust fund.
Naughton is a private defender now, seen her at court the other day
You can bet Boston will give them tax incentives. Every city and state is tripping over themselves to get business. Bribery is a part of the game now. You would think Illinois has that down pat.
they say....one person leaves Illinois every ten minutes...anyway, the only difference between Chicago, Cook County, and Illinois, and the Titanic, is....the Titanic had a band
Here is an excerpt from former Cook Co ASA Sarah Naughton's ARDC beef (Note: "Respondent" = ASA Naughton):
6. After approximately 10 minutes of Ms. Pineda repeatedly asking Respondent and Gould to leave, they exited the store. However, after approximately another 10 minutes, Respondent opened the door to Taboo Tabou and poked her head through, while yelling "bitches" at Pineda and another employee. At the same time, Respondent and Gould were banging on the glass windows of the store while shouting and making obscene gestures.
7. Ms. Pineda then called the Blue Havana cigar store, which is next door to Taboo Tabou, and has the same owner, to ask for help from an employee of that store, to see if he could get Respondent and Gould to leave and generally to diffuse the situation. At the same time Pineda call "911" for assistance.
8. David Boone, the employee from Blue Havana, arrived and repeatedly asked Respondent and Gould to leave, but they only became more belligerent. Respondent went into her purse again and presented her States Attorney's badge to Boone. Respondent swung at Boone. Boone tried to walk away from her, but Respondent fell. Respondent got up and then began running down the street, yelling that she had been "assaulted." At the same time, Gould began videotaping Boone with his cell phone which he positioned directly in front of Boone's face. The phone hit Boone and Boone hit the phone out of Gould's hand. Gould attempted to hit Boone, but Boone punched him and Gould hit his head on the metal window frame. Respondent then charged at Boone, fell to the ground, grabbed Boone's leg and bit him, breaking the skin and causing injury to Boone's knee. Several bystanders pulled Respondent off of and away from Boone.
9. The police arrived and placed Respondent in handcuffs and in a police SUV where she managed to get her hands out of the handcuffs. Respondent was taken out of the SUV by a female officer, re-handcuffed and put back in the vehicle. Respondent told the officer at least six times that she was an Assistant State's Attorney. Respondent called the officer "a cunt, slut, bitch whore, and dyke" and slapped at her. Respondent got out of the handcuffs again and was kneeling on the floor of the vehicle attempting to vomit. Respondent was taken out of the vehicle again and, while sitting on the curb, proceeded to try to make herself throw up while screaming obscenities.
Illinois is in a death spiral thanks to Democrats.
"Leaving Illinois I can understand...
...but going to Boston,Tax-a-achusetts ?!?"
It just shows that Massachusetts, as bad as it may be, is not as bad as Ill-annoy.
This is nothing; just wait until that union boss takes over as mayor of Chicago.
- not a LEO
That Sarah girl lawyer what a clouted pos, she should of been fired drunken Otis, as usual Anita takes care of her girl but Gary is letting Anita prosecute our guy Evans quite the conundrum!
I can't wait to retire and move out of Illinois myself!
I had enough of this fucked up City, County and State!
Fuck those whole place!
Da Pelon
I remember when this A.S.A. was acquitted I had a case that was being reviewed and I asked the A.S.A. that was doing the review what they thought about the judges acquittal and their response was "why ruin a persons life over what happened" my response was coppers lives have been destroyed for a lot less. They had no response.
"I remember my father and grandfather putting food on the table by getting up before the sun came up and trudging off to their manufacturing jobs with lunch bucket in hand. Illinois is not silicon valley and most of the manufacturing jobs are gone."
8/28/2014 12:49:00 AM
I have an old 1959 Illinois Manufacturers Directory, 1800 pages -- the annals of a lost civilization. Probably 90% of the companies listed -- from one-man shops to huge employers like Western Electric, Zenith, Admiral, Motorola -- are gone now.
"Businesses can't make it in Illinois with high wages, high income taxes, high property taxes and corrupt state and city governments looking for handouts every other day."
I knew a great old guy, came over here from Europe after WWII, had a radio repair shop, place packed with radios and parts, and about two square feet of work space left, where he sat every day with his meter and his schematic and his soldering iron. His property taxes were over $10,000/year, not to mention everything else. He has since passed on.
Last I saw, the store had been completely gutted and remodeled, and was sitting there empty, "FOR LEASE."
Stores on each side? "FOR LEASE." "FOR LEASE."
"A quick drive through any of the city and suburban business districts will reveal company after company shut down and building after building empty and for sale."
The manufacturing area in Franklin Park is going, going -- all the tool-and-die shops, places like that...
Maywood used to have four plants for American Can Company. Allied Radio manufactured all their "Knight-Kits" out there, every sort of electronic gear you could imagine. The Ovaltine factory was right down the vanished CGW tracks. Dozens more. All gone. Look at the place now.
Etc.
It's true.
"...a heavily intoxicated Naughton caused a commotion in the store, flashed her badge and then bit a security worker..."
Zombies!
Some poor guy got a serious chunk bitten out of his arm by a nut at Lollapalooza, and has to get all kinds of tests now for HIV, hepatitis, etc. Asides from the criminal charges, the victim should sue the s__t out of this character for physical and mental distress, etc.
As Ralp Kramden would say "Naughton, Get out, Get out!!!!!
(OT ) wow rahm helping to get 5 million illegals work permits on Chicago but no money for pensions making working people pay millions more to support these pos not even citizens!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/28/Gutierrez-Emanuel-Chicago-Will-Lead-on-Implementing-Potential-Exec-Amnesty
Meanwhile....
GM Plans To Invest $48.4 Million at a Bedford Indiana Plant.
Toyota has announced a $100 Million investment in it's Princeton Indiana factory.
GE Aviation plans to invest $92 million and create 200 jobs at a jet-engine manufacturing plant in Lafayette—its first production facility in Indiana and one that could expand to add hundreds of additional workers.
quick drive through any of the city and suburban business districts will reveal company after company shut down and building after building empty and for sale."
The manufacturing area in Franklin Park is going, going -- all the tool-and-die shops, places like that...
Maywood used to have four plants for American Can Company. Allied Radio manufactured all their "Knight-Kits" out there, every sort of electronic gear you could imagine. The Ovaltine factory was right down the vanished CGW tracks. Dozens more. All gone. Look at the place now.
Etc.
It's true.
8/28/2014 01:58:00 PM
For all the people who lament the good old days where do you shop? I bet Wal Mart, Dollar Tree and many others like them are on the list. Everyone likes paying next to nothing for everyday products, household electronics all made in China, Mexico and other slave labor countries. We've traded our values in for a higher standard of living. Anyone who complains is a hypocrite.
True look around so much manufacturing gone, take a ride through Bedford park so many empty buildings really scary times for this state,and with Obama in charge the entire country is at stake!
"For all the people who lament the good old days where do you shop? I bet Wal Mart, Dollar Tree and many others like them are on the list. Everyone likes paying next to nothing for everyday products, household electronics all made in China, Mexico and other slave labor countries. We've traded our values in for a higher standard of living. Anyone who complains is a hypocrite."
8/28/2014 07:25:00 PM
Used to shop at the small neighborhood places; much of what you needed was within a couple of blocks walking. How I miss that corner drugstore, bought my candy on the way to school every morning (no "Safe Passage" needed") and ran for the newspaper every evening. Liquor store, hardware store, TV repair, bicycle store, flower shop, grocery store, barber shop -- that was our block. Woolworth's, shoe store, clothing store, our bank, more stuff next block down. If you wanted to go downtown, 35 cents on the IC, twenty minutes ride to the best shopping anywhere. Field's, Carson's, Wieboldt's, Wards, Sears, Goldblatt's -- all American-made top-quality goods.
I wish it were still that way. The average person did not abandon all this -- it was taken from us, by much greater forces at work.
I still try to patronize smaller businesses when I can, but a lot of the time we have no choice anymore. It is sad.
...and actually we get a lower standard of living, fewer jobs and less income and lower-quality goods and services, while vast profits are raked in by speculators and flippers and the inequality of wealth distribution tips more and more.
We didn't ask for our bank to be gobbled up and turn into Chase. Every time I go up to the counter, I remember that I am dealing with corporate criminals who were fined $19 billion dollars for helping to collapse the economy -- and are now taking it out of our hide, paying us .01% interest...
We've been raped. And no, we weren't "asking for it."
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