Must Be Nice

Conflicts of interest out the ass, but hey....no standards for Chicago aldercreatures:

• Mayor Brandon Johnson’s pick to lead the Chicago Housing Authority, retired Ald. Walter Burnett, and his wife Darlena Williams-Burnett have been paid more than $260,000 as housing voucher landlords for the agency since 2007, a Chicago Sun-Times’ analysis shows.

  Records show the Burnetts have had 10 contracts for properties rented to CHA voucher holders, including two ongoing contracts and five contracts that were active during Williams-Burnett’s time as an employee of the government agency.

  The voucher payments to Burnett and his wife appear to present conflicts of interest, according to the CHA and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The business dealings could be a roadblock to his appointment to lead the nation’s third-largest public housing authority.

Burnett was just as good at armed robberies as he is at stealing from taxpayers, maybe slightly better since he hid this for a number of years and almost got away with hiding it until he was nominated by Conehead to run the CHA. Now that's in jeopardy.