Posted on 08/01/2005 7:56:10 PM PDT by summer
July 28, 2005 — Mayor Daley is denying that he had any knowledge of a memo regarding the Hired Truck investigation that was improperly leaked to the city's Law Department and others. That memo contains the names of city employees who are cooperating with the government's investigation into City Hall corruption.
Two big questions Thursday night: What, if anything, will U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who also handled the highly publicized CIA leak case in Washington D.C., do about a leak in the City Hall corruption case in Chicago? And even if Mayor Daley didn't see the list, why would a defense attorney give it to the same city law department that fired his client and is now supposedly cooperating with the feds?
"I haven't seen a list. I haven't asked to see a list. I don't expect to see a list," said Mayor Richard Daley.
The mayor says he hasn't seen the list of government witnesses that defense attorney Michael Goggin improperly faxed to Daley's corporation counsel, Mara Georges, last week in the case involving Goggin's client, Robert Sorich. Sorich allegedly fixed the city's hiring and promotion exams to reward political allies when he ran the mayor's City Hall patronage office.
The list, according to City Hall sources, also ended up in the hands of Alderman Ed Burke, chairman of the City Council Finance Committee and a prominent local newspaper columnist. The leaked list contains the names of 13 former city commissioners and personnel directors who allegedly know about the hiring and promotion scam. The only current commissioner on the list is aviation chief John Roberson, who hs met with Daley several times in the past week
"I just had John Roberson, the head of the aviation, in my office. I didn't know any witnesses or anything on that, and no one whatsoever ever said that," said Mayor Daley.
"It has never been retaliation," said Daley.
Daley's corporation counsel, Mara Georges, admits sharing the list with several lawyers in her office before the government told her it was privileged information, but she denies leaking it to aldermen or the media.
"It's difficult to think that this was a mistake. One doesn't simply send evidence to the city by accident," said Judson Miner, former corporation counsel.
Miner was Harold Washington's corporation counsel in the 1980's.
Attempts to get reactions Thursday from Alderman Burke, defense attorney Michael Goggin, and the U.S. Attorneys Office were unsuccessful.
Correction: The quote is not from a regular columnist, but a "Chicago area writer and consultant."
Whoever is responsible for leaking the name of an undercover truck should be frog-marched out in chains!
What was leaked was a secret list of witnesses who are cooperating with US Atty Fitzgerald in this matter.
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Which means, this being Chicago, that one of the names on that list is going to be found with six .22 hollowpoints in the head, stuffed into the trunk of his own car in long term parking at O'Hare, as a reminder of what happens to people who mess with the Man on Five...
The Coroner's report will allege "suicide"...
BTW the these investigators I think the Marcy park thing.
Whew! Glad I don't live in Chicago, anymore!
'RAT politicians like Daley make Al Capone look like an alter boy. I can't decide which is more corrupt. The U.N. or the DemocRAT Party.
I still remember the guy that was our football coach in grade school. His day job was as a cop. He had a huge "Dump Daley" poster across the front of his house - must have been 15 feet long and 5 feet high - during the election season. This was back in the 70s days of the original Richard Daley.
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