When I was a prosecutor in Central Indiana, getting ANYTHING out of Chicago PD or the Cook County Courts was a nightmare. We sent investigators up on a major murder case and they literally had to “go rogue” because the locals would not give them the time of day. It’s customary when doing a major investigation to have a local cop assigned to help show you around and let you know the lay of the land. Especially when you want to recover property from a pawn shop. We would do that for anyone with a case in our jurisdiction. That doesn’t happen in Chicago.
And getting any official records is impossible because our office functioned honestly; we didn’t have a “slush fund” to grease the palms of the local clerks to get them to do their jobs.
On the other hand, Chicago PD did take a car theft report from me when my car was stolen. And that was after an “extra inning” game at Wrigley Field. (You sure you parked your car here buddy? All these streets look the same...) Four weeks later they called to tell me they found the frame.
The dumb*** Mayor never figured there was a secret bank account into which the Comptroller deposited govt funds.
Trying to explain how that much money could disappear unnoticed, braindead Mayor James Burke said Dixon has struggled financially because "the state" is far behind on income tax disbursements to munis.....(now there's a red flag is there ever was one).
How Comptroller Crundwell could sustain such an extravagant lifestyle on an $80,000 salary was mostly attributed to her success in the horse industry, the dumbest Mayor in the world stupidly said.
"She definitely was a trusted employee, although I've had some suspicion for quite a while just because of her lifestyle," Burke said in an interview.
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A Chicago-based corruption watchdog, the Better Government Association, called Dixon a wakeup call for state and local officials to put in place better safeguards, especially in smaller towns that lack rigorous oversight.
"Tens of billions of our tax dollars flow through 7,000 plus units of government in Illinois every year. And we can only watch a few of them," said the association's president, Andy Shaw.
"Most of them don't have inspector generals. Most of them don't have auditor generals. Most of them don't have watchdog groups looking closely.... It's ripe for rip-offs."