Another Investigation?
Rahm just loves to appoint people who are (or are soon to be) under investigation by the feds:
- Federal authorities are investigating Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and a $20.5 million contract the district awarded on a no-bid basis to a training academy that formerly employed her, sources said.
The CPS inspector general's office began an investigation into the contract with north suburban-based SUPES Academy and Byrd-Bennett's relationship to the company in 2013, a source said. The U.S. attorney's office then started its own probe, and a grand jury has been reviewing evidence for at least a year, the source said.
CPS officials have discussed the possibility of appointing an interim CEO depending on the outcome of the investigation, a source said. Byrd-Bennett, who was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel in October 2012, attended a regularly scheduled meeting at CPS headquarters Wednesday and remains in her post.
For such a "squeaky clean" guy who promised reform and a break with the past corruption, he sure seems to have a lot of people committing felonies under his nose...just like the bad old days.
Labels: scandals
posted by SCC at 12:39 AM
63 Comments:
Rahm is loyal to his associates and too trusting. It seems some have let him down,
Ah, but when the media asked Rahm if he still had faith in her, he said he'd have to find out what the scope of the investigation revealed.
Sounds like she's in the path of a big, yellow schoolbus and there'll be tire tracks on her back any minute now.
Different administration, same corruption.
Not a cop but I work in the IT field. Taking a look at the CPS Procurement website makes me fucking sick to my stomach at the open waste and fucking obvious fraud that is never discussed. CPS last year alone paid 100 million to Sentintel Technologies and that does not even cover the day to day operations of all the damn schools. So you dig deeper there is another 9 million to ATT for the phones, another 4.5 million for fucking cell phones, 32 million for school supplies the teachers and principals bitch about not having, another 27 million for chromebooks, another 12 million to operate the datacenter, etc. It is disgusting that this information is open to the public and never fucking questioned. CPS has been known for years to be a fradulent waste of money but for whatever reason Rahm has been afraid or turned a blind eye to the theft.
http://csc.cps.k12.il.us/purchasing/
I'm glad that ethics training is working...
And these assholes want us to do ethics training? Fuck you!!!
Hey - this is good.
It seemed like Chicago was immune from these types of investigations.
Let the Inquisitions begin!
A drop of piss in the ocean of criminal financial Fuckery at CPS...
BBB is the diversionary fall girl?
(Was Brizzard crazy like a fox?
He must be laughing up his sleeve at this shit.)
Feds energetically barking up the wrong fucking tree.
Again...
The Rotten-assed w1%-er banking and finance shysters who sold all those fucked-up investment vehiclesthat are draining the financial life-blood from the city via CPS.
Funny... Rahm sez: "Well, a contract is a contract..."
Funny... He doesn't feel that way with the teachers union or any other union for that matter.
Those same shysters who provided Rahm with his obscene amount of money to buy a second term with to ensure that there will be no local or federal sniffing
around into how and why the same cast of North Shore/Gold Coast/LaSalle St. cast of characters have been allowed to profit obscenely on these fucked up financial vehicles and why CPS, knowing they're being
bled white while adamantly refusing to act diligently in the name of the tax payer and take legal action to get from under these God-Awful things.
Some school districts have sued, won and at least been made partially whole.
Devil in the details is that non-disclosure agreements are demanded by the defendants so there is no working paper trail for other school districts to develop
a legal strategy to snatch back tax payer treasure.
Rest assured that CPS would energetically avoid taking action (by Rahm al-Ghoul's order) like that because too fucking many palms have gotten greased
over the years and too many members of elected officialdom took campaign money from these people over the years.
Didn't they hang thieves once upon a time?
Watch the sound and fury of this "federal investigation" decay to a fart noise, a puff of smoke and some stink with BBB and some loyalists stepping down and Rahm installing some wild-eyed, non-fuck-giving bomb thrower at CPS.
Well hopefully he is also being investigated .
I'm shocked this didn't come about until after the election and that spokesperson's name, Culloton, gee that name sounds familiar for some reason but there's no way in Chicago that person would've gotten that job because of their family lineage I'm sure. ...
It's interesting that this story was covered by the media after the election.
Funny how this comes out the week after the election
Also, Rahm refuses to say how he will pay for the Burge reparation (or the free Pre K or the free college) but only Garcia was rightly lambasted for not having a financial plan
Is Lisa Madigan launching a full investigation?
Right after election!
Thanks Obama.
20 million no big deal just let everyone have some time to earn.
kinda reminds me of when they moved on Blago to save Jackson Jr.
The Fed are like a nest of clouted hacks What ever the president approves is what sees the light of day.
Why not allow these reward programs for former employers?
anyone wonder if the feds waited on some of this until after the mayoral election?.....
I said it before and I'll say it again, the KDS (Kleptocrat Democrat Syndicate) can't steal as easily, unless they have the right people in the right positions to award no bid contracts.
Some would say, "here's some cheese with that whine", the peole of Chicago voted for four more years of that.
Bullshit. A choice of the opposite side of the same turd (one end with a little corn) is no distinctive choice at all.
All smoke and mirrors....nothing will happen....
Maybe she forgot to take the ethics test.
And the populace still elected Rahm. Sell your houses now. Rent and then move ASAP.
Where's our Illinois State's Attorney? Lisa? Lisa? Does she have the ability to recognize when a Democrat is breaking the law, or is she paid to look the other way?
The IG needs to send in a few moles to ascertain CPS
cheating on state tests. Atlanta is not alone in this disreputable behavior. Been going on in Chi Town for years. CCSA never looked into it. It would take a while and trust me CPS teachers would squeal big time on one another.
Funny this news didn't come out until after his re-election
rahm thinks he is too smart for the citizen and law enforcement!the noose is tightening!!
First it was the Indian crook from Ohio. Now it is Triple B. Who is next in this Crooked, Evil cabal!
CPS has been known for years to be a fradulent waste of money but for whatever reason Rahm has been afraid or turned a blind eye to the theft.
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I agree, but you also have to take the numbers with a grain of salt. At least what they spend the numbers on...32million on "school supplies" what does that mean? If there is money there and schools and employees say they are not getting them... There is your sign.
Off Topic
View the video at 11:50 minute mark to the end.
Automatic upgrades for minor offenses?
Is armed robbery a minor offense?
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/2015/01/20/cook-county-board-president-toni-preckwinkle
to 1:16 AM Thank-you!
I love teaching but despise CPS' incompetent administration.
Teachers are not issued cell phones-I had to up my minutes in order to call parents and to collaborate with the general education teachers regarding my special education students-these teachers did not have the same prep period as I did-the one office phone we were allowed to use to call parents was always in use plus there was a total lack of privacy....also where is the technology for the children with disabilities in the neighborhood elementary schools? Up to date technology can be a huge factor for those with learning disabilities-when we ask, we are told there's no money yet I know special education is "supposed" to receive state and federal funds....I have been waiting for years for this to be investigated-yes, I've reported this ad nauseum to no avail....sending this from the laptop I bought in order to complete copious amounts of special education documentation-CPS programs caused my family desk-top to crash...yet CPS has money for the joke SUPES Academy.
Been investigated for a year but comes out after the election. How convenient.
Anonymous said...
Where's our Illinois State's Attorney? Lisa? Lisa? Does she have the ability to recognize when a Democrat is breaking the law, or is she paid to look the other way?
4/16/2015 08:45:00 AM
Do you really have to ask that question?
Illinois doesn't have an Attorney General. That was the intention. The Illinois AG is like a cop that only gets cats out of trees while the bank is getting robbed.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Rahm is loyal to his associates and too trusting. It seems some have let him down,
4/16/2015 12:54:00 AM
The baiting troll made it in on the first comment! Don't bite, guys.
A training academy for principals to turn over schools and faculties.
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=4017
When the Fed is involved, it's a done deal. Somebody is getting indicted here, Rahm "don't kno' nuttin' because it's likely Byrd-Bennet but who will be the goat for her.
More Chicago Way because the Sheep handed Rahm another 4 years.
Daley & Co lives on.
Just heard Rahm's response on the news. He almost sounded like Daley with all the mumbling/fumbling going on.
Her city comptroller (how much did he steal from us), great choices rahm! but now they appoint healey the girl that was in charge of failed Olympic bid (how much of our money was wasted), she is now head of mcpier she was daleys former chief of staff (bet she kept mouth shut reward here), guess no one else was qualified to make over $300.000 plus her huge city pension! Next investigation will be??
When a Republican gets elected president and takes the chains off FBI and U.S.attorney they would have a field, day hire more agents, lots of work to do with the corruption that went on for years bet trillions are missing, but yet rahm does not want to fund required 550 million police pension fund!
Blogger Mr. SouthSide said...
Is Lisa Madigan launching a full investigation?
4/16/2015 07:11:00 AM
HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh man that was good!
IL Atty General, a ghost payroll spot
Rahm has been afraid or turned a blind eye to the theft.
http://csc.cps.k12.il.us/purchasing/
You said Rahm is afraid or turned a blind eye to the theft? How about he is in on the action. These days politicians are way too smart; in the old days they asked for a fat envelope full of cash. These days after quitting public service they get to sit on the board of AT&T or Starbucks. Then all of a sudden they become advisers to a Fortune 500 company. It's all legit folks. In the meantime, we are the problem and reason why the city is fucking broke.
Just like from the movie "Back to School" when Rodney said,"If you want to look thin, hang out with fat people." "If you want to look legit, hand out with crooked people."
So the corrupt Feds are gonna investigate their corrupt comrades in Chicago City Government?
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
teachers will strike again this fall...then bankruptcy,scary times for our pensions because of shortshanks!
Sentinel Technologies
This is funny as hell. If CPS gave Sentinel, a privately held Illinois corporation (CEO Dennis Hoelzer) $100 million in revenues last year. If this is true (I cannot verify the number) That would MORE THAN HALF of the $171 million that Crain's reported Sentinel took in in their April 21, 2014 Issue. I smell a RAT!!! Would love to know what other government contracts these guys have. Oh - here is one.. Detroit Public Schools..
A smart investigative reporter would investigate the SUBCONTRACTORS of Sentinel. Those would be given to the politically connected and they families, then described as minority sub-contractors and hidden from the view - just sayin'. Might want to look at CPD - who does the computer systems for the coppers?
Orders Up! - Mikey Madigan Shit Sandwich special with extra sauce!
And I can figure this out at home in front of a computer. Where are the Pulitzer winning investigative reporters in Illinois?? Suntimes?? Trib?? WBEZ?? Can you help. …crickets.
Blago sure got railroaded. All these other democrats actually took money. JJ JR, his wife, and now Bennett. Blago must have really pissed someone off. talked about money and bam in the slammer for 14 years.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Rahm is loyal to his associates and too trusting. It seems some have let him down,
4/16/2015 12:54:00 AM
You need to stop your shit...
Rahm will be undone by his own
ever-grasping hands...
-Workin' Man goes in his pocket to get his wallet only to shake hands with Mayor Rahmplestiltskin-
OT -
How about an investigation into where the last 6yrs of financial records for the Academy went.
Tri-River funds missing.
Any news folks want to ask for a FOI for those funds?
Oh, and guess who was in charge of all that $$$$$?
So Ch5 reported on a animal that abducted a green line cta rider and held her against her will. The main point here is the description included everything including the fact he had dreds except for the race Is it that difficult to give the race of an offender?
The Democommiunists are a criminal organization.
Are they just finding this out?
Another 1 bites the dust as the song goes! Will barbara bird sing like a bird to protect herself or will she. "Take the fifth" and stupidly (Obama term) go to prison? Or will she take the hit and have Obama issue a pardon? Talesof 2 cities the clouted 1% and us the rest!
Would it have made a difference,this crap would have gotten him re elected,cause all that he has done and suspected of doing has got him re elected not to mention the pension perils,he is a snake and check your electric bill and discover the $21.49 monthly customer charge from supplier that the city receives,com Ed claims they don't get that money and the supplier claims the city gets it,so another scam for being offer additional suppliers of electricity and the city or Rham has his hand up our you know what along with municipal tax,but where does this money go .....times how many residents.....millions and millions,but we broke!
New email from the Office of the Superintendent:
Department Member:
Please be advised that on 24 April 2015 the Chicago Police Department will release a list containing information related to complaints lodged against officers in response to a recent Freedom of Information Act request. This request was made by Jonah Newman of The Chicago Reporter. The time period covered will be from 13 April 2011 to 13 April 2015.
The time period for release is limited by a court order issued by Judge Peter Flynn on December 19, 2014, in the case of FOP Chicago Lodge No. 7 et al. v. City of Chicago and Chicago Police Department, Docket No. 14 CH 17454 (Cook County Circuit Court, Chancery Division), that precludes release of the requested documents beyond a four year period.
Categories of information to be released include: complaint number; incident date and time; complaint date; category code; category description; name of the accused; star number; final finding and discipline; complainant's gender; and, complainant's race.
This notice is being sent in accordance with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement and the Illinois Personnel Record Review Act, 820 ILCS 40/7(2). The Department will provide copies of the list to the Fraternal Order of Police, Chicago Lodge No. 7; the Policeman's Benevolent & Protective Association of Illinois, Unit 156-Sergeant's; the Policeman's Benevolent & Protective Association of Illinois, Unit 156-Lieutenants; and the Policeman's Benevolent & Protective Association of Illinois, Unit 156-Captains.
Did the CPS just appoint a new IG?
Schuller, former CPD sgt. Who worked in IAD then left to become attorney, then came back to Corporation Counsel and then CPS.
Watch his interview for out of town IG spot in New Orleans. But Chicago kept him. And see what happens. Big sscandal, loss of money.
We are screwed again
Nothing but absolutely nothing is surprising in Chicago
Corruption everywhere. The Dumbocratic way.
MS
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Funny this news didn't come out until after his re-election
4/16/2015 09:07:00 AM
Twice tonight, on different news shows, comments were made about the not-so-coincidental timing and how people are skeptical Rahm didn't know before now.
To anonymous at 1:16 AM: Thanks for giving specific numbers to the disgusting theft and waste of money that all we CPS teachers are aware of, more or less. And then they have the nerve to raid our pensions and criticize us for failing to turn our students' 13s on the ACT into 20s. I am still paying the off the loans for my master's degree, make 1/4 the salary of most everyone else with my education, and am expected to work miracles with students who enter high school reading at the 4th grade level.
Of course the media which was loyal to Rahm, sat on this investigation story and did not report it until after the election.
The numbers on the procurement website are in fact real. No one has ever questioned Rahm or the school board on the massive fraud. Me personally, when I got the information I sent it to several politicians and the only one to help me was Scott Waguespack from the 32nd, he actually gave me the website. I know a guy who works for Sentintel, he confirmed the contracts, another friend works for CPS, he verified the massive ipad and chromebook purchases. This is only the start. There is so much waste on the tech side it is truly sickening. Garcia was correct in wanting a real audit and he got laughed at.
Ps. Rahm knew about the deal, he's the one whom put her there for his deals, just like he did Ahmad the comptroller. Come on he puts people there uses them then disposes them and on to the next. Bbb and Amer Ahmad and the rest of you fall guys turn your handlers in and get a deal from the Feds. Save your asses!!
OT -
Hey maybe the Feds could investigate the Tri-River fund fraud that's been going on at the Academy for years.
Seems that several years of documentation has gone missing/never appeared.
Hmmm?
Where did that $$$ go?
Hmmmmmm I wonder if any "reporter" ever looked inside to old CPS building at 39TH & Wolcott and saw the countless rooms filled floor to ceiling with unused brand new furniture that was purchased with tax dollars and just sat there??
Garcia was correct in wanting a real audit and he got laughed at.
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This is the best comment on this thread by far. Garcia needed to support himself better and attack Rahm as an information withholder. He needed to mention how many FOIA requests he needed to file!
my gut feeling tells that the daleys clan from the 11th ward are involved remember nothing good ever comes from bridgeport
Have them look into all the 20 and 21 year old students that are juniors with No credits. The school system is so corrupt.
All the liberal Dean of students who ask teachers who get threatened and or battered to just let it go. Crock of crap.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ah, but when the media asked Rahm if he still had faith in her, he said he'd have to find out what the scope of the investigation revealed.
Sounds like she's in the path of a big, yellow schoolbus and there'll be tire tracks on her back any minute now.
4/16/2015 12:59:00 AM
That was fast. Barbara met the bus today. Or was it a steamroller?
Rahm is even bolder about this shit than Shortshanks was.
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