Chicago Tribune: Rahm Emanuel weighs in on Accretive dispute
Looks like Rahm's trying to outdo Mitt Romney for the title of "Biggest Corporate Shill". Fuck him...
www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-rahm-emanuel-weighs-in-on-accretive-dispute-20120508,0,2697985.story
Rahm Emanuel weighs in on Accretive dispute
By Peter Frost
Tribune reporter
2:17 PM CDT, May 8, 2012
Dismayed with Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson's handling of a public dispute with Chicago-based Accretive Health Inc., Mayor Rahm Emanuel is urging the fellow Democrat to resume talks with the embattled company and "cease efforts to publicly prosecute" the matter in the press.
In a letter sent to Swanson on Friday, Emanuel defended the hospital billings and collections company, saying it "does important things for hospitals and good things for our city, particularly for our neediest citizens."...
...Accretive, one of Chicagoland's fastest-growing companies, received $6 million in tax increment financing from the City of Chicago in 2010 to help it build a service center on South LaSalle Street that was projected to employ 650 people. The company also received a mixture of tax and job-training credits from the state of Illinois valued at $1.42 million.
The mayor has held up the company as an example of worthwhile TIF investment. Emanuel toured the LaSalle Street offices of the company in March, talking with executives and interacting with workers as part of what his administration said was an effort to understand what businesses have experienced and identify opportunity for future potential growth....
The letter:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/92860737/Rahm-Emanuel-Accretive-Letter
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