How corrupt is Chicago? Via
Belmont Club:
You can see why Beale might be suspicious of Chicago’s Metra Board. After all this august body actually takes out corruption insurance on its own leadership. “How far does corruption go in Illinois? So far that Chicago’s commuter rail agency actually took out insurance against it.”
It appears that the head of Chicago's Metra Board just happend to commit "suicide" by walking in front of a train (or maybe he was "walked").
When Metra chief Phil Pagano stepped in front of a speeding commuter train last May, he took a number of secrets with him.
Perhaps the largest was what he did with the nearly half-million dollars he was accused of misappropriating from the agency. Specifically, Pagano was accused of taking some $475,000 in improper advances on vacation time, even forging the signature of Metra chairman Carole Dorris on the paperwork. …
But after his suicide, few held out hope that the public would see any of the money returned.
Some of it came back last week in the form of a check, from an insurance company. Since 2001, Metra has required its executive director, chairman, and board members to carry corruption insurance.
How convenient.
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