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"The prosecution’s best testimony hasn’t come from the cooperators who lined up to testify about ComEd’s efforts to stay in Democrat Michael Madigan’s good graces. It’s come from the defendants’ own mouths, captured in the dozens of wiretapped phone calls and secretly recorded videos...What lies between is a rather large gap in which prosecutors are asking the jury to make the connection, based largely on circumstantial evidence, that the defendants believed the favors they were doing for Madigan would cause the speaker to help the company get what it wanted."
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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Feds got the King of the Illinois Democratic Party on numerous taps, Mikey Madigan in big trouble!!
Feds need to go after the Illinois Democratic Party as crime syndicate next.
Da Judge