Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Is our federal government really stupid enough to be defrauded by these City of Chicago entrepreneurs? Don’t answer …..
The fact that so many were willing to defraud the government shows the culture of Illinois employment—a culture steeped in corruption.
And this happened under the watchful eyes of Preckwinkle and Pritzker.
These loans went through “approved” lenders. They should receive harsh penalties and be closed down due to governmental fraud.
Massive fraud by government employees is the same story told over and over again. How many spike overtime to up their pensions? Stealing from the public is their job.
This is infuriating to me as the relative of someone that had a legitimate business, was denied the loan and paid employees out of his own pocket. Yet the already handsomely paid state employees all had one person “ beauty salons “ and “ security companies “. Make them pay back the money, and fire them and jail them. Enough of trying to lift people up whose main angle is to scam.
Hard to impose meaningful sanctions when there are so many offenders. Consider freeway speeders.
These crooks are more like education borrowers who scooped up available money. Prosecute then settle on a repayment plan, with interest, then collect the loan aggressively and force them into bankruptcy and foreclosure. OR take away their driver’s license. For sure fire them and take away their pensions and health benefits. Jailing them just costs public funds for food and guards!
Any state employee government employee found to be stealing money from the Tax payer needs to be held in jail and put in prison. Firing is not enough. Reprimands are not enough. There needs to be standard of behavior set and consequences to criminal behavior. As it should be for any other person…but more so for an actual employee of government.
look up ppp loans in your city. there are more than just gov employees that did this. and someone taught them how to do it and how to cheat.
No jail time!
We scream about funding illegals. They are a financial burden. Well these people are just as bad. I hope they get caught and are forced to payback plus interest. They took advantage of a bad situation
Certainly losing their job if not jail!
Somehow and some way they will end up on a public payroll in Cook County.
How about a list of the names of these crooks and the positions they had held. Are they still working? What punishment was exacted? And while we’re at it, list their home address like we do with sexual predators.
Names and positions seem to be reported here, along with details of each case.
wow this list is a real eye opener , pubic employees have no clue as to how private business works where they would be fired for all the cases listed; no union protection for this kind of theft.
Wow. Thanks for the link. So many from RTA, IDOT, Pace and Metra. Go figure.
Thank you,
I went through all the PACE and Dept. of Transportation employees. No one jailed, a few fired, most were allowed to resign and I suppose keep their pension. In defense of the inspectors they did refer people to the States Attorney. So many people in the same departments, How is this not organized crime?