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The former heard of the discipline office at the Illinois State Police will get a chance to resume his lawsuit against Jenny Thornley, a former state worker who allegedly falsely accused her boss of sexual assault and used her political ties to Gov. JB Pritzker to get him removed, to attempt to thwart a criminal investigation into allegations that she falsified payroll records to rake in overtime pay.
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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This whole thing reeks like a hog farm on a hot August afternoon.
Fortunately, as Governor Tax Cheat well knows, the stench of fraud and corruption doesn’t bother those in his administration, most of the lame-stream Illinois media, and the bought-bribed-n-paid-for voters who always seem to be in the majority on Illinois election days.
If only the media cared enough to do their job. This will continue to get buried.
Pritzker’s ship is slowly sinking bye bye silver spoon