Feds looking at Quinn anti-violence program
Heat surrounding Gov. Pat Quinn’s embattled $54 million anti-violence initiative intensified on Thursday after the disclosure that federal authorities have shown interest in how money flowed in and out of the program.
Sources with knowledge of the inquiry said investigators asked for vendor information, copies of contracts and copies of signed checks tied to the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office out of the Central District of Illinois asked the Illinois State Comptroller’s office to turn over payment information from the NRI, which Quinn launched in 2010.
“I can’t disclose the nature of the request from law enforcement, it’s a legal issue,”
Gang members killing gang members. Best way to solve the gang problem.
Since Obama became President, despite his pen and phone, over five hundred people have been slaughtered in Chicago. The Federal government has done virtually nothing.
River North is a very good neighborhood. This is not far from the Loop, and one of the best areas of Chicago.
So many lost Treyvons. But the left glances over this where there’s a real problem.
Chicago, Ill. gun laws galore, but it doesn’t faze the bad guys. Let’s just call it “urban renewal”.
Big Democrat cities = Margaret Sanger for adults.
Chicago is thoroughly infested with gangs. There are very, very places in Chicago where gangs do not have a distinct presence. Moreover, Mexican drug cartels pretty much run the city politically.
Chicago is akin to a third-world oligarchy. It’s a shame that the cesspool of Chicago so dominates the rest of the state. Excise Chicago and its political dominance and Illinois is a red state, with a lot of very fine, hard-working and freedom-loving people.