Slaphappy

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:09:17 -0600

My recommendation to Sanchez: Use what you know and you can avoid jail time and a possible promise of future immunity. This option would not be received well by the mayor's office. Oh my God, that would be the greatest thing ever.

dopplerd

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:43:39 -0600

Sanchez's defense was that he wasn't the one making the final decisions, that fell to the Mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. Can a low level mob enforcer claim that the murders and beating he dealt out where not his responsibility because the order came from above? Sanchez was the COMMISSIONER of the department not a low level guy. Maybe he is just a complete idiot, but more likely he knew what was going on (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) and choose to keep his $125,000/year job and benefits rather than force an equitable hiring process for the department and piss off the king. Sanchez had three choices: maintain the patronage hiring scheme, institute a process for equitable hiring, or quit. He choose option A and got caught. My recommendation to Sanchez: Use what you know and you can avoid jail time and a possible promise of future immunity. This option would not be received well by the mayor's office. Now lets parse the mayors statement: "I never have or ever will support any activity that is illegal." Of course not. You are more than happy to let your political operatives to take care of things, no questions asked. "I also believe it's fair to remind people that today's decision was based on allegations from years ago." Daley has been mayor for 22 years. Sanchez was an appointee of his. So he seems to be saying that since something happened as some point over two-three years in the past it shouldn't be looked into. "We have since implemented many reforms..." Reforms necessary because of corruption that your cronies were caught perpetrating. "a former federal prosecutor, who, for four years, has been aggressively rooting out misconduct as our Inspector General." Yet the IG has no real teeth. He can find 25% systemic waste in Streets and San trash collection yet the mayor chalks it up as "a few bad apples." Plus the IG has no mandate or power to investigate alderman and their offices. 30 alderman since 1972 have been convicted of crimes related to their office.

Chicagoist: Sanchez on Trial: Convicted

Slaphappy

dopplerd