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Emanuel got $10,000 in donations linked to red light camera bidder

June 19, 2013
Chicago Tribune

Mayor's office says it will return $5,000, raising fresh questions over his self-imposed limit on campaign contributions

By David Kidwell, Chicago Tribune reporter
June 19, 2013

Mayor Rahm Emanuel accepted $10,000 in campaign contributions from the spouses of two top executives of a longtime city contractor that is also vying to take over the city's beleaguered red light camera program.

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Details of billboard deal raise questions

June 15, 2013
Chicago Tribune

By John Chase, Chicago Tribune reporter

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's no-bid deal for new expressway billboards guarantees the city far less than half the $700 million the private vendor expects to make and essentially requires Chicago to repay all the upfront cash the mayor touted as a key selling point.

A Tribune examination found the city also has to cover $41.8 million in "capital costs" for the vendor, despite the Emanuel administration's assertion the city wouldn't have to pay to install or maintain the digital signs under the 20-year agreement.

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Cook sheriff moving to be IG in suburbs

June 13, 2013
Chicago Tribune

By Matthew Walberg and Joseph Ryan, Chicago Tribune reporters

When the new mayor of Hazel Crest took office this spring, he discovered that the village manager and two top employees had received double-digit pay hikes that he thought violated town rules.

But instead of trying to get the attention of federal or state law enforcement agencies, Mayor Vernard Alsberry Jr. turned to investigators with the Cook County sheriff's office.

Talks are underway that could make Sheriff Tom Dart's office the town's official inspector general.
 

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Rahm Emanuel is losing control of his city

June 16, 2013
Salon.com

As his disapproval rating soars, he’s getting tagged with names like the “murder mayor.” Here’s how it fell apart                       

By Mark Guarino

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Emanuel returns donation from tech firm lobbyist

May 17, 2013
Chicago Tribune

Rep, also an elected official, and mayor say gift was legal transfer between two politicians

By Jeff Coen and John Chase, Chicago Tribune reporters

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has returned a $10,000 campaign donation from a lobbyist for a tech firm disqualified from a city program this week after the Tribune raised questions about potential violations of the mayor's self-imposed limits on political fundraising, an Emanuel spokeswoman confirmed Thursday.

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City contract seekers donate to Emanuel despite his own ban

May 16, 2013
Chicago Tribune

Emanuel returning tech execs' $15,000, spokeswoman says

By Jeff Coen and John Chase, Chicago Tribune reporters

Leaders of a tech firm seeking a city contract donated $15,000 to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's campaign fund, despite Emanuel's own executive order banning contributions from vendors trying to get city business.

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Group sues over new Chicago ward map

April 2, 2013
Chicago Tribune

By Hal Dardick Clout Street

More than a year after Chicago aldermen thought they had settled the contentious issue of redrawing the city's 50 ward boundaries, the new map they approved is facing a challenge in federal court.

The remap is unconstitutional because it was designed to protect most of the current aldermen, rather than ensure equal and full representation of individuals, minorities and neighborhoods, according to a lawsuit filed today by the League of Women Voters of Chicago and 14 individuals.

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$44,256 to check email? Feds balk in case tied to Daley son

March 4, 2013
Chicago Sun-Times

By TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter

A big Chicago law firm is demanding $44,256 for a search of emails that a federal agency wanted in a case involving Cardinal Growth, a venture capital firm tied to former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son, Patrick Daley.

The U.S. Small Business Administration says taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay, and it’s fighting the bill in federal court.

The agency seized Cardinal Growth in 2011 over $21.4 million in unpaid loans the Chicago fund got from the SBA to invest in several businesses.

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Red light camera firm admits it likely bribed Chicago official

March 2, 2013
Chicago Tribune

By David Kidwell, Chicago Tribune reporter

Chicago's embattled red light camera firm went to City Hall on Friday in its latest effort to come clean, acknowledging for the first time that its entire program here was likely built on a $2 million bribery scheme.

By its sheer size, the alleged plot would rank among the largest in the annals of Chicago corruption.

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The Cicero syndrome (Editorial)

February 25, 2013
Chicago Tribune

If voters in Cicero have a hard time distinguishing between Larry Dominick, the candidate, and Larry Dominick, the incumbent town president, it's probably because Dominick himself doesn't seem to know the difference.

Town spokesman Ray Hanania confirmed last week that uniformed community service officers driving official town vehicles have gone door to door, questioning residents about whether they had applied for mail-in ballots for Tuesday's municipal primary election.

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