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To: LindyBill who wrote (295257)	3/6/2009 8:06:41 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation of 793903

Official: Clout got rookie job Inexperienced driver hit co-worker with truck By Jeff Coen, Laurie Cohen and Todd Lighty \| Tribune reporters March 6, 2009 On paper, a politically connected but inexperienced truck driver looked like one of the best candidates for a job driving a city garbage truck. Aides to Mayor Richard Daley gave her the highest possible scores for experience and driving ability. But six months after she was hired, the driver crushed another city worker against a telephone pole. On Thursday, a former city hiring official testified at a federal corruption trial that the ratings were a sham. The driver's perfect scores were filled in after she was picked for the job by a high-ranking Daley lieutenant. The testimony may solve a mystery that came to light in 2006, when the Tribune detailed the accident and questioned how a member of a pro-Daley political group got her job. And it offered the latest glimpse into a scandal-plagued City Hall hiring system that has prized political pedigree over qualifications... chicagotribune.com

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