Posted on 01/24/2025 6:57:16 AM PST by Salman
Riding roller coasters. Chowing down on fried food. Catching waves in the pool at Hurricane Harbor.
Hundreds of Housing Authority of Cook County employees and their families could enjoy these activities and more for three years at Six Flags on the agency’s dime.
The state’s second-largest housing authority, which was flagged by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as “troubled” in part because of an absentee board, low-grade property inspections, incorrect reporting on leases, high outstanding balances for tenants behind on rent and failure to submit financial reports on time, spent more than $60,000 on such trips.
The money came out of HACC’s roughly $22 million annual budget, dollars meant to be spent on providing public and subsidized housing to some of the lowest income residents in the county.
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Anything to do with public housing is corrupt. There is no way around it.
The usual is bribes.
Government worker entitlements.
That’s how that black grifter in the mayor’s office stays in office, viz. by placating chiraq unions.
LOL, you can’t pin this one on Federal workers, they do not get field trips like this unless the employees pay for it themselves. They might get a yearly Org Day on site with some food and live music but that usually is it.
PRITSKER GOING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THIS, ALSO???
HE IS DOING SO FOR THE STELLANTIS FACTORY
This would explain the uptick in crime at the Gurnee Illinois Six Flags.
The new administration needs to set the Inspector General free to investigate all big city public housing authorities.
One person I know in HUD IG told me the Biden gang prohibited on site investigations to make it easier for their Democrat friends to steal from the government.
That is easily fixed—and most folks in IG want to dig and uncover corruption.
“LOL, you can’t pin this one on Federal workers,”
I didn’t.
Plebeians should not complain that the Patricians worked so little to enjoy benefits like this.
Sorry, I was being rhetorical and didn’t mean you made the accusation specifically. I should have worded it better.
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