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it's called the harlem shuffle ! better yet, replace one idiot with another. Frank Kruesi did his job at CTA, he brought in Daley lackeys Tim Degnan, Mike Wojcik, John Malatesta, Rich Pope, and Mike Harjung to collect double bubble! Now they bring in Miss Wonderful to make it look like a change! The daley Mob continues its rule, with the public standing with it's thumb in its ass!

(3) Could Kruesi be Richie's go-between with the Republicans, in a deal which will have Daley sabotaging the Democrat's Presidential candidate to favor the Republicans? (4) Kruesi's going to DC to bird dog for Daley's Democratic machine faction, to give Richie an edge over Madigan's and Blago's factions? (5) Just to get Kruesi out of town, before the feds figure out just how deep in the shit Kruesi really is? (6) Not a reward, but a payoff/hush money, to keep Kruesi from spilling his guts, figuratively speaking? (7) Ditto #6, but literally speaking, as in, have his guts spilled? (8) To have Kruesi do what he does, as in piss off everyone he comes in contact with, thus setting up another issue for the Democratic Presidential nominee to exploit, as in 'Those mean, cheapskate Republicans won't give Chicago it's fair share of federal funds, so we gotta elect a Democrat to the Presidency, just to have a fair hearing on our city's needs? (9) ??????????? Daley never does anything for simple reasons, all his moves have a variety of multiple complex reasons behind them.

7 December 2007 PRESS RELEASE Chicago, 7 December 2007 City of Chicago’s Settlement of Police Torture Case Patterson v. Burge for Five Million Dollars The law firm of Ávila & Tomic, LLC, are pleased to announce that we have secured a settlement on behalf of torture victim Aaron Patterson from the City of Chicago and the former police officers who tortured and framed him and secured the false conviction and death sentence. The city, on behalf of itself, retired police lieutenant Jon Burge, and the retired police detectives who served under Lt. Burge, have agreed to pay five million dollars for what they did to Aaron Patterson. In 1986, Area 2 detectives, under the command of Lieutenant Burge, wanted to clear the case of the of the Sanchez murders. Detective Joseph Danzl coerced the 16-year-old neiece of another suspect into implicating Aaron Patterson for the murders. Mr. Patterson, then 21-years of age, had been a periodic annoyance to the Area 2 detectives. He had been a member of a gang, but he was different somehow; the son of a public school teacher and a Chicago Police lieutenant, Aaron earned good marks in school, restricted his violence to other gang members, and was rapidly straightening his life out by serving honourably in the Illinois Army National Guard and taking the Chicago police examination. None of that mattered to the sadistic lieutenant Burge. His now infamous interrogation rooms at Area 2 were torture chambers, where suffocation, hitting suspects with telephone books, clipping electrical leads to suspects’ testicles and sending shocks with a generator, threatening suspects with pistols and revolvers at the men’s heads, and simply beating the men with their fists were all employed to force the primarily African-American suspects into signing whatever false “confession” Lt. Burge and his detectives wanted to clear their cases. Meanwhile, the actual culprits of the crimes were free to continue to prey on the citizens of Area 2. Lt. Burge, Sergeant Jack Byrne, and Detectives Danzl, Ray Madigan, William Marley, Dan McWeeny, William Pedersen and James Pienta suffocated Aaron Patterson with a vinyl typewriter cover until he passed out from lack of oxygen, beat him with their fists, and threatened him with a revolver. Eventually, as anyone would, Aaron cracked and signed the false “confession” in order to save his own life. He told his attorney, he told the judge when he was first arraigned, but it was too late. Between the false “confession” and the fake “witness” (who recanted), Aaron was convicted and sentenced to be executed. Aaron and spent the next sixteen years proving his innocence, as did the other victims of Lt. Burge. During lost his twenties and thirties to corrupt Chicago Policemen and awaited the executioner’s needle for a crime he never committed. Governor Ryan granted him a full pardon for innocence in January 2003. It is unfortunate that Aaron Patterson was abandoned by his former attorneys, the so-called “People’s Law Office,” (a private law firm, despite its name) and nearly the entire case. Frank Ávila of Ávila & Tomic, LLC, agreed, at the urging of urban translator, Wallace “Gator” Bradley, to reverse much of the damage to Aaron’s case. Ávila, his partner Ivan Tomic, and their associate David A. Miley, added the Austin, Texas-based, law-firm Barry & Loewy to their team in January 2007. The two firms express their appreciation to Alderman Ed Smith for encouraging the city to end their opposition to compensating Aaron Patterson for destroying his life. ********** Ávila & Tomic, LLC, is a Chicago-based litigation firm. Please contact Frank B. Ávila or David A. Miley at either 312-762-5928 (telephone), 312-762-5929 (telefacsimile), 773-671-3480 (Ávila mobile), 312-523-6537 (Miley mobile) or Ávila@Justice.com & David.Miley@NetZero.com Barry & Loewy, LLP, is an Austin, Texas, -based litigation firm. Please contact either Carl R. Barry or Adam J. Loewy at 512-852-4321 (telephone) or 512-687-3481 (telefacsimile).

Mr Kruesi hands were tied by the State legistators. CTA would be up and running if not for a lack of Federal and State funding. I had a hard time picking up Frank Cocohead's radio show on halsted. I bet he spewed out all the little man garbage. I bet he would kiss Mayor Daley's left nut to get his sewer job back. Anyway I wish Frank would invit me as a guest,so that there would be balance.

"CTA would be up and running if not for a lack of Federal and State funding." No shit, Sherlock. Fucking Mickey Mouse could run the CTA with unlimited Federal and State funding. And wouldn't that have been just wonderful, for all you bloated hogs, to have had even more of the taxpayers' money to waste and steal. The only 'tied hands' Kruesi should have had were hands cuffed behind his back. I bet you kiss da mare's left and right nuts as much as he'll let you. If you want to be on the radio, just ask Frank. You won't have to kiss either of his nuts, unless you want to.

Who-ever voted for this crooked mayor needs to have their heads removed by the mayors proctologist.

The last time Kruesi was sent to DC, it was punishment because the mayor got wind of Kruesi and Barb Grochala office romance while both were married to other people. Something tells me there is more to this move too.

Mr. Kruesi took on a thankless job. Thank God he landed on his feet with a nice job. You will never find him at home sitting on his ass feeling sorry for himself. He is my HERO!!!

With John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN, Kruesi as Chicago's man in DC almost makes sense.

The Official City of Chicago Career Path get promoted take fall for Daley resurface as highly-paid lobbyist repeat as necessary

Kruesi should be housed in a federal facility. Also look Ron the butterfly Huberman's dog and pony show. He rides the train to work,to get the appearence of being like the common taypayer. He is just as dangerous or even more so than Kruesi, DUE TO HIS SPECIALIZATION OF COVERING UP Daley's corruption.

11th man . Your welcome to come on my show. How do I refer to you ? Gutless little pussy or if you do give your real name, I'll just end up kicking your little inbred ass! So feel free to call me at 1708-493-1530. To stay with the subject of the Blog. Frank Kruesi was moved out as Mayor's chief of staff after his wife found out Frankie was sleeping with Mark Fary and Rose Andolino!

Did the Reader really fire John Conroy??? Kind of stupid now that the Burge civil cases have been solved. Frank Avila really resurrected that issue from going nowhere.

John Bolton is no longer our Ambassador to the UN.Why? Because he was RAILROADED out by the Left-Wing Congress for being TOO PATRIOTIC AND OUTSPOKEN ABOUT AMERICA"S ENEMIES!

The Daley Administration mirrors the Catholic Church! Both in denial!!

Knock the Catholics will ya you Patsy? Pay your Catholic School bill and move on. Is John Rottman still your Deacon? He ratted ya out.

When Mayor Daley was a State Senator his Roommate was Frank Kruesi. That is a fact. D.W. got the scoops.

And maybe Kruesi and Daley will end up 'sharing a room' again, as in cellmates.......

So, the mayor 'fires', or, if one prefers, 'accepts' the resignation of Frank Kruesi, then, after some times passes, re-hires Frank Kruesi. It would be interesting to know how many individuals have had this same experience with this same mayor, and who they were, what jobs they held first, at what salary and for how long, and what job they were re-hired to do, at what salary, and how much time passed between their being fired/resigned and their being re-hired. Also, if possible, what historical relationship each individual, who has had the same experience, has had with this mayor.

What Ben misses in his analysis of the appointment of Frank Kreusi to head the Chicago office in D.C. is that Frank Kreusi for a number of years held one of the top posts in the U.S. Department of Transportation; was widely regarded by people in both the public and private sectors of that industry as brilliant; that transportation is and always has been one of the primary reasons for the existence and continued relevance of Chicago; and that dealing for Chicago in Washington involves a different audience and different skills than dealing with the public who ride the L trains. Frank would not be a good alderman, perhaps, but he is an excellent choice to run our office in D.C. and we are fortunate as a city to have someone with his background and ability and relationships for that post.

If "...Frank Kreusi...was widely regarded by people in both the public and private sectors of that industry as brilliant...", than, why is the CTA so totally fucked up? Since you seem to know about these things, maybe you can give us all a detailed history of Kruesi's tenure at the CTA, with all the specifics on the many positive things he accomplished. And, if you can think of any negative things that Kruesi is responsible for, you could be specific about those, too.

I suspect that Kreusi's still on the payroll because he knows where a great many of the bodies are buried. He's been Richie's hatchetman for getting close to thirty years now, and you've got to wonder what he could tell Pat Fitzgerald's guys about Richie if he decided to. I know a number of people that have worked with Kreusi, and the consensus is that his salient qualities are loyalty and thuggishness - sort of like Karl Rove, except with an 86 IQ. His administration of the CTA proves beyond any sort of a doubt that, far from being some sort of genius visionary, he's not even a remotely competent administrator. Sending him to DC as the City's lobbyist seems to be merely the latest episode in Richie's very public losing of the few marbles he ever had.