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A spokesman for Gov. JB Pritzker said the second-term governor “has been clear about the need to root out corruption and instill transparency and honesty at every level of state government. The verdict advances the cause of cleaning up state government and sends a message that this type of behavior will not be tolerated in Illinois. This administration demands a high level of integrity in public service and will accept nothing less.”
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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Let’s hope that he serves his time in a real prison and not some soft country club “prison”.
Perjury Conviction Of Madigan Stooge Show The Corruption Of Illinois Democrats
They cannot be talking about Illinois. Corruption has always been part of Illinois government for generations. Not going away anytime soon. It is a way of life for government people.
More process crimes?
The Chicago US attorney almost always gets their man. Except for Blago’s first trial, but they got him anyway. Who have they failed to convict? Doesn’t look good for Madigan or Burke. If US Attorney comes after you, cut a deal as quick as you can because they don’t miss.
Feds have like 2-3 years of wiretaps.
Da Dem King Mikey Madigan is going down!!
Question, when do the Feds charge the Illinois Democratic Party as a criminal enterprise?!!
RICO
Pritzker’s comments are meaningless being this was a Federal prosecution case and not a State case. Pritzker once again is cultivating headlines for his Presidential run latching on to a situation he had nothing to do with.
Nothing to do with it? Ha! I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he’s up to his neck in this mess. Let him keep digging a hole for himself.
Exactly correct. It’s confounding, the lame and mendacious stuff that Pritzker gets away with shoveling out to what passes for ‘journalists’ in Illinois.
Mapes gets the top bunk and Mikey Madigan gets da bottom bunk in Joliet.
Another crooked Illinois Dem is found guilty baby!!
Is there any guilt, an sense of culpability, if your any one of the countless 100s of thousands who never questioned sending off your dues for decades to ‘friends of madigan’, etc or any of these gooles in exchange for getting your pay-to-play deals rubber stamped? Or, your now just switched to ‘friends of welch’, ‘friends of martwick’, etc and nobody cares?
Marion, not Joliet.