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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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Mayor Emanuel reports gifts from the rich and famous

May 3, 2013
Chicago Tribune

Mayor's disclosure statement lists accommodations, transportation provided by financial, entertainment execs

By Bill Ruthhart, Chicago Tribune reporter

A stay at the house of a Hollywood entertainment mogul, transportation on the tabs of millionaire venture capitalists and, for the second straight year, sports tickets, meals and more from his close adviser Michael Sacks.

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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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Chicago scandal leads to shake-up at red-light camera firm

February 8, 2013
Chicago Tribune

Parent firm's chairman resigns in wake of internal probe of gifts to ex-city official

By David Kidwell, Chicago Tribune reporter

The chairman of the Australian company behind Chicago's red-light program resigned this week and trading in the company's stock was suspended amid an intensifying investigation into allegations of corruption in its Chicago contract.

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Emanuel revamps City Hall ethics board

October 3, 2012
Chicago Tribune

By Hal Dardick Clout Street
10:12 a.m. CDT, October 3, 2012

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today dumped the entire board that oversees enforcement of ethics and campaign finance rules at City Hall, calling it “a new day for ethics and accountability in Chicago.”

During the quarter-century it has existed, the ethics board has been criticized as lax on enforcement.

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Emanuel revamps City Hall ethics board

October 3, 2012
The Chicago Tribune

By Hal Dardick Clout Street
10:12 a.m. CDT, October 3, 2012

Mayor Rahm Emanuel today dumped the entire board that oversees enforcement of ethics and campaign finance rules at City Hall, calling it “a new day for ethics and accountability in Chicago.”

During the quarter-century it has existed, the ethics board has been criticized as lax on enforcement. The panel hasn't found a single case of wrongdoing by aldermen, even though more than 20 were convicted of felonies in that period.

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Emanuel whistleblower protections step closer to reality

October 2, 2012
Chicago Tribune

By Hal Dardick Clout Street
6:13 p.m. CDT, October 2, 2012

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s attempt to expand protections for regular folks who face retaliation for reporting city wrongdoing won praise as a concept but criticism for the details Tuesday.

Since it was first established in 2004, the city’s so-called whistleblower ordinance has covered only city employees.

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Ethics reform: The ball's in Rahm's court

September 24, 2012
The Chicago Tribune (Editorial)

Appendix F of the second report by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's ethics reform task force is a diagram showing how alleged violations of the city's current ethics ordinance are investigated and resolved. The task force members call it "the spaghetti chart."

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Strike ends, but Emanuel's campaign continues

September 20, 2012
The Chicago Tribune

By Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune reporter
9:15 p.m. CDT, September 20, 2012

The Chicago teachers strike has ended and the kids are back in school, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel's effort to portray the outcome as a success is far from over.

With help from his well-funded political allies and the resources of the Chicago Public Schools system that he controls, Emanuel is describing the tentative contract that emerged from the seven-school-day strike as a hard-fought victory for children.

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