Hired Truck Scandal
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If you didn't hear about this scandal in the mainstream media you are not alone...
DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley are both mentioned in federal documents relating to Chicago's Hired Truck Program scandal...
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Mayor Daley and the Daley family political base’s 11th Ward Democratic organization were recipients of “coerced” campaign contributions, according to the plea agreement of former city Water Department Director of Finance and Administration Gerald Wesolowski. [...]
Congressman Emanuel, elected in 2002, was the recipient of Water Department employee campaign “volunteers,” presumably in his successful primary campaign against State Rep. Nancy Kaszak (D-Chicago).
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According to the plea agreement, Water Department employees and other city employees were recruited for political work in violation of the Shakman Decree (1969) which forbids the hiring and firing of non-policy making city employees for political reasons. According to the plea agreement, Donald Tomczak, the former First Deputy Commissioner of Mayor Richard Daley’s Water Department, "rewarded certain members of his political organization...with raises, promotions and overtime, in return for their participation in Tomczak directed political activities."
Wesolowski, 46, who was indicted on 15 counts ranging including racketeering, bribery, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice agreed to plead guilty one count of mail fraud and to cooperate in the government’s case.
Wesolowski was one of the bagmen for Tomczak, a co-defendant in the indictment. He is the 6th person to plead guilty in Hired Truck probe to date, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
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According to Wesolowski's plea agreement, "candidates receiving support via this criminal enterprise were 'Jeff Tomczak, mayoral candidate Richard Daley, judicial candidate Amy Bertani, United States congressional candidate Rahm Emanuel and others.' There is also a reference to an unnamed 'Candidate A' with reference to fund raising."
I wonder if "Candidate A" is Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich ... whose has another scandal under his belt...
A local NBC affiliate has series of previous stories on the scandal posted here.
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