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Your tax dollars at work!Chicago Sun-Times
Rezko pal runs Tollway oasis eateries despite owing state $359KDecember 13, 2007
BY CHRIS FUSCO AND DAVE MCKINNEY Staff ReportersAl Chaib owes the state $359,639 in unpaid business taxes that date back five years. But that hasn't kept the longtime associate of indicted ex-gubernatorial adviser Tony Rezko from being part of an exclusive Illinois Tollway deal, despite a law that bars tax deadbeats from getting state business, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.
Chaib's firm, Morpheus LLC, owns Subway sandwich shops at all seven tollway oases. The deal includes his 23-year-old daughter, Alia, and a Schaumburg businessman, Adam A. Yala, records show.
Selling sandwiches on state property is just one of the perks Chaib's family has secured under Gov. Blagojevich. In September 2003, the governor gave Chaib's wife a part-time job in a state agency charged with collecting more than half of her husband's tax debt -- a decision a government watchdog said "does nothing but increase suspicion of how the Blagojevich administration does business."
Excerpted from: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/694850,CST-NWS-watchdog13.stng
