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Forty-eight court clerk’s office employees “no longer work” there after investigators found they defrauded the federal COVID relief Paycheck Protection Program. Six employees of other county agencies also have been found to have defrauded federal relief programs. At least three supervisors in the Cook County chief judge’s office recently have been forced out after fraud accusations against them were “sustained” by an investigation, and the sheriff’s office reported having found evidence of more than a dozen inmates engaging in PPP fraud.
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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Seems like all Cook County employees, can’t imagine any city or state employees were involved
If any of these accusations have been confirmed , have these people been charged as the criminals that they are?
Resign or fired? That’s it? How about some prison time? And repayment of their stolen funds including fines and interest and seizure of any future wages and ineligibility for welfare?
Tom thats coming next the FEDS are the ones who gave the County the names the fools nightmare is just beginning
Almost all government lackies are crooks one way or another. It is the nature of the beast.
In the words of a government Lackie “Taxpayers were put on earth to be cheated”. No one will get charged or serve any time, only the taxpayer working overtime to pay for the many cheats.