{"id":406339,"date":"2010-03-08T18:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0120a916ee49970b"},"modified":"2010-03-08T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T02:59:15","slug":"hiring-monitor-says-aldermen-failed-to-disclose-stealth-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/406339","title":{"rendered":"Hiring monitor says aldermen failed to disclose stealth payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Posted by Hal Dardick and Todd Lighty <\/em>at 5:46 p.m.<\/font><\/o:p><\/p>\n

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A stealth City Council payroll loaded with aldermen's friends, relatives and political operatives appears to violate a federal court order banning political hiring and was never disclosed to the federal court, the court-appointed monitor said in a report <\/a><\/span>Monday.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Federal court monitor Noelle Brennan cited a series of \u201cactual or potential abuses,\u201d including many highlighted by the Tribune last November when it documented the existence of the $1.3 million Finance Committee payroll.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe city or City Council\u2019s failure to disclose the existence of (the payroll) through the four years since the monitor\u2019s appointment is concerning,\u201d Brennan wrote.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Her conclusions about the payroll mirror those made by Inspector General Joseph Ferguson in an earlier report. They come while aldermen are debating a proposal by Mayor Richard Daley to extend the inspector general\u2019s authority to probes of aldermanic hiring. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Brennan\u2019s report notes that the council could vote as early as Wednesday on a plan to extend that authority and advocates in favor of that change.
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Posted by Hal Dardick and Todd Lighty at 5:46 p.m.   A stealth City Council payroll loaded with aldermen's friends, relatives and political operatives appears to violate a federal court order banning political hiring and was never disclosed to the federal court, the court-appointed monitor said in a report Monday.   Federal court monitor Noelle Brennan cited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}