Actually the courts are much better than they have been after another series of wiretaps and other electronic surveilance sent scores of judges, cops, sheriff deputies, court personnel and lawyers to jail. Operation Greylord put a big crimp in the buying and selling of justice. Operation Gambit involved bugging the table that Pat Marcy and John D’Arco, the powers in the First Ward (the Outfit’s guys) sat at to plan the corruption necessary for the Outfit to continue to loot the Region. This destroyed the power of the First Ward from which the city had been ruled since the days of Hinky Dink, Bathhouse John and the Grey Wolves. 76 posted on Thursday, December 18, 2008 9:49:46 PM by arrogantsob (Hero vs Zero)
From:
http://nalert.blogspot.com/2008/03/chicago-democrats-and-chicago-mob.html
Most of America thinks Mayor Daley runs Chicago.Those on the inside know that’s not the case.The man who runs Chicago from behind the scenes,since the early 1990’s, is Alderman Ed Burke,Chairman of Chicago’s Finance Committee.Burke went from being an errand boy for Alderman Roti to the most powerful elected figure in the state of Illinois.In a corrupt state like Illinois,the guy with the most money in his campaign fund is the man at the top.In Illinois,it’s not Chicago’s Mayor Daley or Governor Blagojevich but Alderman Burke.
How about forming a Chicago Corruption ping list?