So what about the Chicago Mafia Machine..I doubt there are many high level black Mafia members. I guess they can just hire blacks and mexicans to do the jobs..
Remember the scenes from the Sopranos where the white construction guys just sit around in chairs and get paid..and all the in-fighting about who was to get those jobs. I am sure that really does take place.
This IS the CHICAGO WAY.
UNION CORRUPTION UPDATE
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Duff Patriarch Dies; Headed Chicago Contracting Fiefdom
John F. “Jack” Duff Jr., a highly successful Chicago businessman, has died at age 82. Neither his family nor Cumberland Chapels funeral home in Norridge, Ill. would give any details beyond the fact of his passing. But his life deserves more than passing mention. Few in Chicago were his equal when it came to cultivating good relations with politicians, the unions and the mob. It’s a minor miracle that he, his family and their business partners usually managed to stay out of trouble. The Duffs ran an efficient fiefdom whose fatal flaw was trying to hustle a larger fiefdom: affirmative-action contracting.
Born in Chicago, Duff, a longtime resident of nearby Oak Park, Ill., was not one to let adversity keep him down. By the end of the 1950s, he was juggling three jobs – tavern keeper, union official and City investigator. In 1960, those worlds collided. He testified in court that a one-time beer supplier was Chicago crime boss Anthony “Big Tuna” Accardo, at the time on trial for tax fraud. Duff subsequently lost his City job over conflicts of interest. But he only was getting started. In time, he would become a vice president of the Allied Distillery and Wine Workers International Union and an official of its Local 3 affiliate in Chicago, also known as Liquor and Wine Sales Representatives. That would last until 1982, when he was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison for embezzling union funds. His sons took over after that.
After his release, Jack Duff concentrated on business, especially a janitorial service known as Windy City Maintenance. His fortunes took an upward turn after 1989 following Richard M. Daley victory in a special election for mayor. Duff, family members and friends subsequently won at least $100 million in city contracts and subcontracts during 1990-2002. The quality of the work wasn’t at issue; the manner of acquiring the contracts was. A 1999 Chicago Tribune investigation revealed that Duff’s wife, Patricia, fronted as Windy City’s owner, so that the company, now classified as “female-headed,” could get preference in contract awards. The Duff family had tried to circumvent a Chicago ordinance requiring that 25 percent of public contracts be set aside for firms headed by a racial/ethnic minority and 5 percent be set aside for female-headed firms. Mrs. Duff, son James, and five other individuals were charged by federal prosecutors in 2003 after a four-year probe.
James Duff eventually pleaded guilty to racketeering, fraud and other charges, and is serving a 10-year sentence. The feds dropped charges against Patricia Duff due to her Alzheimer’s disease. In a separate case, a federally-appointed monitor removed another son, John Duff III, from the liquor and wine sales representatives union for embezzling more than $170,000 and for knowingly associating with organized crime figures. Various associates also went down. The Duffs were corrupt, but in all fairness the corruption that brought them down was an entrenched system of racial and gender favoritism. End it, don’t mend it. (Chicago Tribune, 3/7/08; other sources).