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Ald. Brendan Reilly said a constituent who had received one of the gas cards told him he was able to overcharge the card by “$50 or $60” and sent him the receipts. Reilly now wants to know “how many others are out there...This kind of falls in line with exploiting a well-intended program — the potential for it, at least — and obviously the faulty technology is a concern."
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Another council intellectual. Brendan, they’ll steal your socks!
This just proves that there is at least one honest person in Chicago. Well done, to who ever you are. You have made my day. I wouldn’t have believed it from this pool of applicants
So Willie Wilson oversaw a gas giveaway with no fraud and the sitting mayor administered a gas giveaway rife with fraud?
and who’s administering this program? Who issued the debt cards? Who’s the vendor?
Fraud? In a government program? Perish the thought!
Hmm, I’m becoming a “high mobility hardship individual” because I’m getting older and the price of gasoline keeps up. I don’t dare take the Metra or CTA system.
How can I get some help?
Duh!