{"id":299911,"date":"2010-02-09T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T19:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0128778103d4970c"},"modified":"2010-02-09T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T20:31:01","slug":"mayor-daleys-son-called-back-to-army-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/299911","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Daley’s son called back to Army duty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Posted by John Byrne<\/em> at 1:42 p.m.; last updated at 2:30 p.m.<\/strong>
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<\/br>Mayor Richard Daley today said that his son, Patrick, has been called back to active duty in the U.S. Army.
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<\/br>"My son had a responsibility to serve four years in the military," Daley said at an event to announce a campaign to combat the culture of silence that often hampers police efforts to arrest perpetrators of violent crime.<\/p>\n

<\/br>"He’s been redeployed, and so he will serve his country just like every other son and daughter of this country who does the same thing," Daley said.
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Patrick Daley was living in Moscow when he got word of his recent redeployment, said the mayor, who declined to say where his son is serving.<\/p>\n

"It’s a confidential thing he has to do," the mayor said. "He doesn’t want any major publicity where he is or where he’s going. Like anything else, it’s his life, it’s not your life. He’s not a public official. He’s just another son or daughter who has taken this very seriously, and he’ll do it."<\/p>\n

Patrick Daley surprised his family in 2004 when he announced that he was joining the military. He had received a graduate business degree from the University of Chicago just a few months earlier, and was 29 when he was sworn in Dec. 29 of that year. Daley opted to enter the Army as an enlisted man rather than seeking to become an officer.
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<\/br>In December 2007, Patrick Daley was deployed but the mayor declined to say where. The mayor’s son had been a paratrooper with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. Bragg, N.C., but military officials said more than two years ago that Daley was assigned to a different unit at the North Carolina installation.
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<\/br>Shortly before Daley’s 2007 deployment, news surfaced that a sewer inspection company in which Patrick once invested held a city contract.
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<\/br>Before he enlisted in the Army, Patrick Daley joined his cousin Robert Vanecko in acquiring a 4 percent stake in Municipal Sewer Services from April 2003 until late 2004, company officials acknowledged. During that time, the company took over two city contracts from a bankrupt vendor and then obtained one-year extensions on each contract.
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<\/br>When the company filed its economic disclosure statements with the city in February 2004 and listed three officers as owning 100 percent of the company, it failed to disclose the ownership interest of Patrick Daley and Vanecko. The disclosure was required at the time.
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<\/br>In December 2007, Mayor Daley said he didn’t know about his son’s involvement in the company.
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<\/br>"As an adult, he made that decision. It was a lapse in judgment for him to get involved with this company. I wish he hadn’t done it," he said at the time.
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<\/br>The firm told city officials in 2008 that it was going out of business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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