Outfit Job?

This goof served Federal time after being fired from the job....and then got probation for another crime?

• Joseph Pecora, a former Chicago police officer who served federal time in 2006 for taking 50 pounds of pot from a drug supplier, has been sentenced to probation after DNA evidence allegedly tied him to a $350,000 burglary on the city’s Northwest Side.

  Shortly before 8 a.m. on May 6, 2023, someone entered a 79-year-old woman’s home in the 5700 block of West School by breaking a basement window while she was away. The burglar stole about $350,000 in cash from a safe and slipped out, according to Chicago police records. But investigators also found blood on a basement curtain and sent it for DNA testing.

  Prosecutors said the sample matched Pecora.

And after getting out of prison, guess who hired him? 

• Pecora, who resigned from the police department shortly before heading to prison, has apparently continued his service to the city post-conviction. Municipal payroll records list him as a $51.41-per-hour “asphalt laborer” for the Chicago Department of Transportation. 

We might be mistaken, but we think we remember John Kass referring to CDoT as the "Department of Tony (how you doin'?)" as a clever reference to the Outfit connections that ran through City Hall for years. 

So how connected do you have to be to be fired from the Police Department, then re-hired by CDoT? The article doesn't say anything about the $350K being recovered....so are we seeing the curtain drawn back from the continuing mob presence and influence in Chicago?