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"The state attorney general filed to dismiss the whistleblower’s lawsuit, which would mean allegations of improper political influence will not be probed. But the now-public allegations tell a disturbing tale of corruption and patronage in the Land of Lincoln."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Solution: taxpayers file qui tam lawsuits against the individual accused of fraud (as well as any collusive government officials abetting this racketeering scheme) to recapture her fraudulently obtained (immunity-piercing) funds taken from The State… taxpayers file taxpayer objection lawsuits against agencies which pay organisms like this one as the agencies are not Statutorily authorized to pay for fraudulent actors defrauding The State..
The governor just needed to use her bathrooms.
Lol.
Maybe Thornley is really one of Pritzker’s brothers
they do strikingly resemble each other interesting!
What do Cook County politicians and the local TV news people have in common? They automatically transfer their positions to their children or other relatives. Think Phil Ponce, Jeffery Baer, Robert Jordan and all the others. They have no interest in reforming a system they benefit from.
The IL establishment media has done their best to ignore and cover up the corruption in IL – they are complicit when it comes to the Leftist Democrats like Pritzker.
Most alarming in this Thornley saga is how Pritzker moved ‘heaven and earth’ via the AG and Democrat Legislature to get revenge on those who exposed the theft.
I don’t know. I mean, the media industrial complex covered for the very visibly corrupt, blackmalable, degenerate son of an equally corrupt senile pedophile who campaigned from his basement and won the most votes ever.
So I doubt Flounder is concerned about his corruption being made public.
Did you know the Tribune and Sun-Times have not had a single story on Hunter Biden emails/laptop? Except, of course, from a few years ago when the story was that the Russians had planted the laptop. They’ve never corrected that.
So what? Who cares what the Tribune or the Sun-Times do? I don’t read those papers and no one I know reads those rags. They’re irrelevant. Few pays attention to them. For goodness sakes, didn’t the Tribune endorse Schimpf for the Republican primary and yet he got only 4.3% of the vote? Further proof of their irrelevancy.
It’s important because most people still rely on legacy media. They are living in an alternate reality.
I don’t agree that most people rely on them. Some rely on them, for sure, but the circulation figures and viewership numbers show a steep decline in the past decade, arguably, a tailspin which they’ll never be able to pull out of. I’m firmly in the position that legacy media has credibility only because conservative media wastes time talking about legacy media. Legacy media recaps/punching bag stuff, when discussed in conservative media, is basically filler material at this point. It’s the most boring parts of all conservative media. Journalists know this too and are finally admitting it out loud: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1548691746229460994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw… Read more »
Here are the stats:https://www.statista.com/statistics/717651/most-popular-news-platforms/
So the elderly are the most reliant on legacy media for news and the younger are on social media, and social media is by far the largest category. Of note, the most popular publisher on Facebook are #1 Daily Wire, NBC is #2, Daily Mail #3 and Fox News #4, and I can’t find the link but Bongino and Blaze and a couple of other conservative sites are big too. Conservative rule social media (other than twitter the smallest social media platform which actively blocks conservative links) Interestingly enough, radio was a big source for middle aged people than anyone… Read more »
Oh yea, I see 🙂
Mark, watching legacy media is generational. Mostly boomers and old x’ers watch legacy.
In a lawful society this would bring Pritzker down. So many hooks and paths to take him down.
If you read the article, and believe it, there is a very clear and concise audit trail.
Credit to Ms Fox for her diligence. She is very brave.
We must vote out this corruption in November.
In God I continue to trust.
Every year I really enjoy taking the annual mandatory on-line ethics training that’s required of all state employees. 90 some-odd webpages with tests after each section. Full of links to laws-n-policies-n-contact numbers. Lots and lots of “can’t do this-n-don’t do that” in vast detail. Every year while completing my ethics training I’ve been able to think on some Illinois politician or political appointee that had recently been convicted (by the Fed’s) of some sort of corruption. Every year for all six years I’ve worked for the state. Same this year – this outrage was in the papers (sort of) when… Read more »
This information needs to get to Tucker Carlson, who thoroughly roasted Porky this week on national TV. I would certainly look forward to another turn on the roasting spit for our corpulent, corrupt billionaire.
He will see it. It’s also in Just The News. IL press may continue to ignore it but at least some of the national press will be on this.
And so Flounders ( Animal House) Presidential Run is over before it beginnings
Maybe Gavin Newsom is behind this leak…???
I would bet money that there is A LOT more going on here.
Right, Aaron. I had been working on my own new column on this going through all the new documents, which I have done. They raise more questions about what else was going on. Many of the answers aren’t clear yet, but this really stinks. I will at least try to raise the new questions that, heaven forbid, the press starts demanding answers to.
Is the 133 page assessment by the independent law firm publicly available?
Yes. Here you go: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sRmNFdsAjTNOHlSEK82us7ep8s15e-9B
And other documents are linked at DeVore’s Facebook presentation: https://www.tomdevore.com/tom-devore-exposes-potential-workers-compensation-fraud-within-governor-pritzkers-office-and-covered-up-by-attorney-general-kwame-raoul/?fbclid=IwAR1MjphsR_uIhiXPdfN67k6yBtrWbK2xZs34gE4r0cu_GuXodCn_cLr2Q8M
At the time of Watergate, this would have been a Cover-Up. That was then; this is now. It’s not exactly like Trump paying-off his bimbo. But that’s only due to the IQ (improbability quotient) of Pritzker “positioning” himself in that manner. But FDR proved with Ms. Mercer that “all things are possible.” This Pritzker situation appears to be sui generis (as in “suey suey”?). Where is Archibald Cox when we need him?
Maybe she’s also on Pritzker’s East Jackson LLC payroll.
Her initial communication to the Pritzker’s was clearly a threat. “I’d hate to see Pritzker’s name dragged into this….” or something to that effect. What was she referring to? That’s key.
Looks like she made good on her threat…
And the Dems in the legislature chipped in by getting Jack Garcia fired.
A Federal prosecutor needs to investigate the Governor and his minions, plus the AG.
This stinks to high heaven.
We and the Tribune wrote about Thornley’s fraudulent worker’s comp claim all the way back in December. AG Raoul said he was “working on it.” But nobody in the IL press followed up on it or asked the questions that we said should be answered: https://wirepoints.org/answers-needed-as-illinois-jenny-thornley-affair-continues-wirepoints-original/
Kwame’s life’s work is covering up for JB Pritzker, and he’s just getting started.
” It’s the work of my life but i’m just getting started.”
https://westsuburbanjournal.com/kwame-raoul-easily-defeats-erika-harold-in-illinois-attorney-general-race/
Kwame Raoul easily defeats Erika Harold in Illinois Attorney General race
But knowing what you know now, did he?
As the bag boy for the crooked red light traffic ticket camera industry, Raoul has ZERO scruples or principles
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/9/18367837/illinois-deserves-a-conflict-free-attorney-general
And Don Tracy, IL GOP Chairman, raised basically the same questions in a RealClear column. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/01/29/something_stinks_in_the_illinois_governors_office_147110.html
Yippee Ki-Yay something,something!!
Again November 2022 remove this fraud from office, Bailey better get on the bull horn on this one. Devore keep on pressing this issue to the fullest extent of the law, something tells me the titanic is going down (Pritzker).
This whole episode, which the mainstream Illinois media ignored, smelled bad from day one. Now we find out that there were some backdoor payments! And the mainstream media will continue to ignore. We don’t want anything to get in the way of Jabba’s presidential ascension!
This is 5 new Bailey ad spots
And DeVore. He actually did a nice, plain English summary of it all it you have an hour to invest on this Facebook presentation. He includes links to the key documents. It’s substantially accurate from all I have seen: https://www.tomdevore.com/tom-devore-exposes-potential-workers-compensation-fraud-within-governor-pritzkers-office-and-covered-up-by-attorney-general-kwame-raoul/?fbclid=IwAR1MjphsR_uIhiXPdfN67k6yBtrWbK2xZs34gE4r0cu_GuXodCn_cLr2Q8M