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If this bill passes, say goodbye to local control over all Illinois parks and expect to see open drug and alcohol use, needles, no sanitation and fire hazards, but no ordinary park users.
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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.
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The Suntimes piece states the state has no idea how many of the 177 have been fired, resigned or are even facing discipline? — Unbelievable!!!
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2023/9/12/23870671/ppp-fraud-susan-haling-illinois-government-human-services-deartment-dcfs
I would say if you were sponsored by the machine you got a slap on the wrist, everyone else forced to resign or fired.
State and our city employees have been stealing for year’s…if it isn’t locked up it will be stolen…no one gets fired! The big one…PUBLIC PENSIONS!
75% of PPP fraudsters from Dept of Human Services – there you have it. No one should be surprised.
200 concluded with 177 referred to a law enforcement agency. That’s 88% of the loans being fraudulent. I’d say based on that you need to look at every single one of these loans given to people employed by government. Maybe Biden should forget about hiring additional IRS agents to go after working people and start looking at all the PPP loans. “State employees are expected to maintain the public’s trust and confidence, and misappropriating public funds is far from acting with integrity, or conducting oneself in a manner that reflects favorably upon the State,” Nice statement but it’s really just… Read more »
Only in Illinois can a person can steal thousands of dollars, be acknowledged as a thief, be flagged by criminal investigators as a thief, yet still remain unprosecuted, unfettered, and unencumbered.
But if you don’t pay your ComEd bill for three months, your power will be cut-off for that small outstanding bill.
And if you don’t promptly pay your medical copay, you’ll get hounded by debt collectors.
“…may result in loss of employment?”
I’m clutching my pearls on that phrase.
MAY?
Only in Illinois.
What mechanism is available to taxpayers for recovery of fraudulent theft by public employees?
Whistle-blower suits are thwarted by whim of collusive government–prosecutorial discretion(see Kwame Raoul extraordinary interventions to protect Jenny Thornley from any consequences of her felony theft of public money).
Again, what judicial mechanism exists to recover stolen funds from criminal acts of public workers, and what mechanisms protect taxpayers from these employees’ continued employment and pension entitlements?
None, most of them are probably democrats
They are graduates of public education in Chicago. so they just don’t know right from wrong.
Fraud is Illinois’ main export