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leftynyc

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59. Me too

Thu Nov 29, 2018, 02:14 PM

Nov 2018

I'm not at all sure this has anything to do with donnie.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-chicago-alderman-ed-burke-offices-raided-fbi-20181129-story.html

That includes running the workers’ compensation program for the city’s workforce, excluding sworn police and fire personnel injured in the line of duty.

In 2012, a federal grand jury demanded that Burke’s Finance Committee turn over records related to a “duty disability” program that in 2011 alone paid out $115 million to disabled city workers, according to documents the Chicago Tribune obtained at the time.

The 2012 subpoenas were issued about one week after city Inspector General Joseph Ferguson, a former federal prosecutor, announced that Burke’s committee had rebuffed his attempts to obtain many of the same records.

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