Rahm Emanuel And Chicago Inspector General Joe Ferguson Clash Over Hiring

[ej510]

A letter issued Tuesday by Inspector General Joe Ferguson says that with regard to a number of ethics-related investigations, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is no better than his predecessor.

In its quarterly report, and Ferguson's letter that accompanied it, the Inspector General's Office (IGO) argued that Emanuel has refused to bar a shady former Daley aide from working for the city; has refused to fully staff the IGO; and has filed a lawsuit to limit the agency's independence.

Emanuel has adopted "wholesale the position of the prior administration... that the IGO is not a legally independent agency," Ferguson wrote, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

That claim comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by the Inspector General asking the city's Law Department to turn over paperwork relating to a $100,000 no-bid contract handed to former Daley aide Charles Bowen. In April, an Illinois appellate court ruled in favor of the IGO's authority to investigate the case. But the Emanuel administration has appealed that ruling to the Illinois Supreme Court, as the Sun-Times reports -- a message, in Ferguson's eyes, that the new City Hall isn't much different from the old one with regard to ethics investigations.

A Law Department spokesman told the Sun-Times that the case was a matter of "attorney-client privilege.”

Cont'd at the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/20/rahm-emanuel-and-chicago-_n_904431.html

[joeybee12]

1. What a piece of work he is...

Rahm that is...I hope down the road he is eventually caught over how he made $11 million in one year.

[PassingFair]

2. I knew we had been "had" the moment it was announced that this THUG ...

was COS.

:cry:

[ej510]

3. Like Obama he lets the real criminals go and prosecute the poor.