Last year Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, the man who is responsible for sticking county residents like myself with paying the nation's highest sales tax, hired a busboy to work for the county. He quickly became an assistant to then-county Chief Financial Officer Donna Dunnings, who happens to be the related to the Toddler.
Are you angry yet?
The Chicago Sun-Times will make you so:
If a guy's got clout in Cook County, getting tossed in the hoosegow could be like a paid vacation.
Tony Cole, the busboy-turned-patronage worker at the center of a county hiring scandal, apparently had that kind of clout in the finance department, according to payroll records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Tony Cole was fired for lying about his criminal past on a job application.
County president Todd Stroger's cousin, former chief financial officer Donna Dunnings, gave her former secretary paid time off that he did not earn for workdays he was locked in county jail. Dunnings also signed time cards that claimed Cole worked weekends that he did not show up at the office, county records show.
Twice Dunnings bailed Cole out of jail--he was arrested on domestic violence charges--and the ex-bus boy is currently being held in Cook County Jail.
Dunnings said that Cole earnded comp days off for working extra hours, according to the office timekeeper. The Sun-Times says a source told the paper that Cole was that time keeper.
Related posts:
Hack that Obama endorsed bringing Illinois politics to new low
More on Stroger's cousin and her busboy
Todd "Corruption Tax" Stroger dragged into municipal election
Hey Obama! Speak out on proposal to impose nation's highest sales tax in your hometown: UDPATED
More Cook County waste
Todd Stroger: More Chicago Democratic sleaze
Another update on America's worst government--Cook County
Rita Rezko's contribution to America's worst government, Cook County
The latest from America's worst governmental body, Cook County
Bid to rescind Cook County corruption tax fails: UPDATED
Revolt at the polls against the Cook County corruption tax called by Democratic reformer
T-Day in Obama's hometown: Highest sales tax of any big city in America
Patronage hiring still thrives in Cook County
Another thing for Obama to be silent on: Cook County summer jobs going to pols' kids
Update on America's worst governmental body, Cook County
Palatine wants to secede from Cook County
Something else for Obama to be silent on: Chicago will have the nation's highest sales tax
Say no to higher Cook County taxes
No fat in Cook County budget?
Beavers leaves it to the race card as America's worst governmental body gets worse
Your Cook County tax dollars at work
Stop the proposed Cook County phone tax
"Is anyone watching out for Chicago taxpayers?"
Time for me to shop...outside Cook County?
Marathon Pundit Chicago River dumping follow up
Obama and Chicago's "We Don't Want Nobody Nobody Sent" culture
Cook County sues Cook County
My day as a Cook County juror
Technorati tags:
Democrats 
Illinois Politics 
Cook County 
Stroger 
cronyism 
nepotism 
taxes 
corruption
No comments:
Post a Comment