{"id":548131,"date":"2010-04-30T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133ed15e80a970b"},"modified":"2010-04-30T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T18:00:00","slug":"metra-chief-phil-pagano-on-leave-as-compensation-is-probed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548131","title":{"rendered":"Metra chief Phil Pagano on leave as compensation is probed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Breaking News Center<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-body\">\n<p>Metra executive director Phil<br \/>\n Pagano has been placed on paid administration leave as the agency looks<br \/>\n into allegations of improper conduct.<\/p>\n<p>The action was announced as<br \/>\n Metra board members held an emergency session this morning and hired<br \/>\nwell-known Itasca lawyer James Sotos to conduct an independent<br \/>\ninvestigation into allegations that Pagano received unapproved<br \/>\ncompensation.<\/p>\n<p>Board Chairwoman Carole Doris said the board had<br \/>\nquestions about whether procedure and policy were violated.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It<br \/>\n is the board&#8217;s belief that we do not have adequate answers to these<br \/>\nquestions,&quot; she said. &quot;It&#8217;s a sad occasion for Metra.&quot; <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pagano, Metra&#8217;s gruff boss of<br \/>\n commuter rail operations for the<br \/>\nlast 20 years, is under scrutiny for possible financial irregularities<br \/>\ninvolving an alleged &quot;bonus&quot; of $56,000, officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2010\/04\/metra-board-memb\">by clicking here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Breaking News Center: Metra executive director Phil Pagano has been placed on paid administration leave as the agency looks into allegations of improper conduct. The action was announced as Metra board members held an emergency session this morning and hired well-known Itasca lawyer James Sotos to conduct an independent investigation into allegations that [&hellip;]<\/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-548131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548131","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=548131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}