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1,100 Illinois inmates got unemployment while in jail last year
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | October 11, 2012

Posted on 10/11/2012 9:49:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

State officials say they have found more than 1,100 inmates who they believe improperly collected unemployment benefits totaling more than $2 million while jailed in Illinois sometime in about the last year.

One Cook County inmate collected almost $43,000, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security, though most were paid far less. Nearly all of the fraud occurred in mid-2012 from county jails across the state.

(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2012; chicago; cook; corruption; democrats; fraud; jail; obamastash; taxes; unemployment; welfare

1 posted on 10/11/2012 9:49:16 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Bump


2 posted on 10/11/2012 9:55:08 AM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Who wants to quibble about this? These guys were unemployed, weren’t they? Besides we know how big-hearted the RATs are, don’t we?


3 posted on 10/11/2012 9:55:17 AM PDT by arrogantsob (The Disaster MUST Go. Sarah herself supports Romney.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Hey, as long as they were looking for work... :-P


4 posted on 10/11/2012 10:01:27 AM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I work in a hospital......the degree that the American taxpayer/citizen is subsidizing depraved, slovenly,immoral, unethicl, illegal, and dispicable behavior is astounding....

we have the drug abusing "homeless" who basically get their free hospital/hotel stays with hot meals, warm beds, private rooms, cable tv and a shot every now and then of a narcotic to help their "pain"....we have medicaid diabetics who eat everything in sight....we have repeated alcoholics who can't work but sure can afford their booze and come in vomiting and having diarrhea and just can't understand why....

and the repeat offenders of those who shoot up their drugs and get massive cellulitis infections and need to be on expensive antibiotics and the narcotics of course for the "pain"...

most of these people are very ungrateful and unappreciative and treat professional doctors and nurses like they were servants...

laws are such that you can't turn patients away, and you can't just discharge them without a "plan" for their care.....which is why we just had a guy in for 6 weeks because he needed Iv antibiotics and was homeless.....

but your granny....she'd be expected to go home, take care of herself,period....she wouldn't get free hot meals and cable tv....

5 posted on 10/11/2012 10:04:16 AM PDT by cherry
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Last year?””

“Mid-2012”??

What is correct?

Did thie reporter use his texying phone to submit this story?

Only 140 keystrokes?

I am confused.


6 posted on 10/11/2012 10:06:43 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

It’s a MUCH LONGER article *click* on the source and read it. AP can’t be posted past a small intro quote or bullet .


7 posted on 10/11/2012 10:14:30 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Cook County never changes.


8 posted on 10/11/2012 10:23:21 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Uh! What?


9 posted on 10/11/2012 11:01:49 AM PDT by FryingPan101 (2016 looms)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

And Illinoisans can’t understand why Illinois is considered to be one of the most corrupt states in the Union.


10 posted on 10/11/2012 11:21:42 AM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: cuban leaf

Did they vote for Obama at least once in the last election?


11 posted on 10/11/2012 11:34:48 AM PDT by Stayfree (Find out how Obama is destroying America at White House Commie.com!!)
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To: Vaduz
Cook County never changes.

Living in Iowa, I enjoy taking my family on pleasure trips to many places in the surrounding states, including St. Louis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, and Kansas City.

But, if I never set foot in Chicago again, it will be too soon. I absolutely refuse to throw another dime in that cesspool.

12 posted on 10/11/2012 12:17:10 PM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson)
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