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"Todd Stroger sat in a chair away from the fray, laughing uncontrollably." From a clinical perspective, "uncontrollably" isn't necessarily indicative of "hysteria" even though they are commonly manifested in tandem. For the latter, a diagnosis on extended observation and testing is warranted. We currently have a ward on this blog however who might shed light on alternative treatments, but presently, a larger study cohort is needed and referrals for trial inclusion are currently being solicited.

".....a larger study cohort is needed and referrals for trial inclusion are currently being solicited." Wats da gig pay an' wats da percen on da kickback?

And to think we have another 33 months of Toddler to endure. By the time we are finally rid of this pathetic moron, the damage to county services may take as much as 30 years to be able to recover from it.

Fedup: The clinical body of knowledge includes cleraly defined and clinically validated evaluation metrics as follows: 1)Cretin, 2)Imbecile, 3)Idiot and 4) Moron. It is critically important that the differentiating attributes between Idiot and Moron undergo rigorous peer review and concurrence due to the high incidence (+/- f=>24%) of misdiagnosed Cretenism presenting as Moronic or Moronic imitative factors. Further study is indicated and as noted, referrals for ongoing established trials are encouraged.

My topic today is to publicly expose another method by which the Dirty Dick Daley Mob has been defrauding the residents of Chicago. Every two months Chicago building owners with water meters are sent bills base on reading of the water meter for their building, home or business property. There are two basic types of meters that record water usage. One meter registers the numbers in cubic feet. The other type of meter registers the usage in gallons. Chicago measures water usage in cubic feet. All meters that are ordered, inventoried, supplied to plumbers and plumbing contractors by the City of Chicago to measure their water usage should be registering in cubic feet. Unfortunately for many Chicago homeowners and building owners the City of Chicago has provided them with water meters that register in gallons. There is a difference. Registration on a gallon meter is 7.14 times as great as the registration on a cubic feet meter. As a result Chicagoans have been routinely charged 7.14 times their actual water usage for at least 12 years. These water meters have been ordered and received by the City of Chicago. They were placed in the inventory of the Meter Shop. They were given to Chicago Area Plumber's and Plumbing Contractors and sent to the street for installation as replacement water meters by City of Chicago Plumbers and Machinists. This is a typical break down on over charging with the gallon meters: $1.00 in water usage with a gallon meter is billed $7.14 in cubic feet. $100.00 in water usage with a gallon meter is billed at $714.00 $1000.00 in water usage with a gallon meter is billed at $7,140.00 $10,000.00 in water usage with a gallon meter is billed at $71,400.00 Not once did the Chicago Water Department Meter Shop take the time to check what they received from the water meter manufacturers that also supply gallon meters to other municipalities. These meters were received without being checked. They were inventoried without being checked. They were dispatched to Plumbers, Plumbing Contractors, and Machinists without being checked. They were installed on new and existing services without being checked. They were sealed with a City of Chicago seal without being checked by the Plumber or Machinist that sealed them. In many cases they were read by Water Meter Readers without suspecting that there were multiple layers of incompetence that would allow gallon meters to be installed on cubic feet services. It should not have been possible for a gallon meter to be installed on a Chicago water service registering water bills at a rate of 7.14 times what they should be. It happened in 1996 and perhaps before. It continues to happen. This is the same Water Department that wants to fire Frank Coconate for sloppy paperwork. I first became aware of the problem in the 3500 block of north Lincoln Avenue in 1997. I found a water meter in a vault in front of a property. I immediately called my office in the DePaul Center and ask why gallon meters were being installed in meter vaults on my route. The response that I received was: You're crazy. "Nobody would install a gallon meter in Chicago." Although I was not believed the person in the office that would not believe that the word gallon was printed on the top of this meter immediately came to investigate for himself. I was correct. It was the first of many gallon meters found on Chicago Water service lines. Those found were discretely removed and replaced without any Chicago water customer ever receiving a corrected bill to the best of my knowledge. I only know of one property a Laundromat that had a large meter with a 2 inch wide pipe connection that might have received a reimbursement for fraudulent billing. There are hundreds of these meters if not thousands that have been installed either in error or on purpose to bill selected individuals at a higher rate. In either case the City of Chicago has decided to commit fraud and extort money from Chicago Water customers rather than to make reimbursements. Every water meter in the City of Chicago should be checked for the word gallon inside the dial on the face of the water meter and the City of Chicago should do the honorable thing for a change and refund the money over-billed by installing gallon meters plus interest in the case of those that they have already cheated. Everyone in Chicago that has a water meter should immediately open the cover and look under the glass or in many cases now the plastic to see if the word gallon appears under the numbers. If you find the word gallon take a picture of the meter head and contact me immediately or even better call the Federal Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the FBI, because you are a victim of the Dirty Dick Daley Mob and one of their planned extortion rackets. You can not expect the most Corrupt Municipal Government in American History to give you an honest water bill. Remember that these are the same "Good People" that are giving you phony parking tickets, bogus tickets for running red lights that have short amber signals, and the highest sales and gasoline taxes in the country. This is the same Municipal Government that collected money for decades on the Chicago Skyway without the benefit of registration. This is the same Municipal Government that tells restaurant owners how many trees and what kind of trees and how old they have to be before they will provide a building permit to work inside of the restaurant. This is the same administration that purposely flooded the city in the Freight Tunnel Flood and then pretended not to have known about the leak to allow them to commit the greatest case of Insurance Fraud in American History. This is the same Municipal Government that gave you the Hired Truck Scandal, Pervasive Personnel Conspiracy, Minority Contract Fraud, sold a 14 million dollar CTA property for $1 million to a Daley friend, and gave $67 million in Municipal Pension Funds to a Daley nephew to invest paying him $8 million dollars to play with the Pension Funds. Dirty Dick Daley was quick to point out that he did not give his nephew $67 million, that it was the Pension Boards. The people on those boards doing the voting are his insiders or appointments. No this administration can not be expected to be honest and correct the mistakes in their water bills for the common man. Water bill adjustments are made, but they are usually only to reward Daley insiders or for friends, family or personal gain. Alexander Vroustouris the former Inspector General and the Corporation Council’s Office have been aware of this fraud for an entire decade. At the same time that they were aggressively working to cover up criminal activity inside of the administration, including fraud and theft of Municipal funds, the Daley Administration Inspector General Alexander Vroustouris and Corporation Council Marna Mutz, AKA Maura Georges, were also ignoring the fraud taking place to steal additional water revenue from homeowner with gallon meters. While many people have been paying 7.14 times their water usage other’s such as the Mall on the east side of South Kedzie Avenue in the 5800 block had no water meter or bill for nearly a decade and still might not be paying for water for the stores and restaurants in the north end of the shopping mall. Ask Alexander Vroustouris and Marna Mutz AKA Marua Georges why they covered up this decade long water steal and while allowing manipulation of accounts with the installation of gallon meters with no money refunded to victims of Municipal Fraud. Best Wishes, Whistle Blower Jim Osborne

A) The property at 1419 W. Taylor Street was stealing water revenue for more than 30 years and even received more free water after discovery. It should be noted that this property was the first Illinois State Lottery Outlet in 1974 and was already a restaurant stealing water revenue. The food is good, but they have no ice water. They have had only “hot” water for decades. B) The property at 1446 W. Taylor Street which included the office of 42nd Ward Alderman Burt Natarus and Cook County States Attorney Richard Devine has two buildings and a total of 5 apartments plus the office without a metered water service for decades. Just imagine Burt Natarus washing his hands with stolen water ever day. C) The Building next door at 1442 W. Taylor Street housing China Nights Restaurant is a similar construction without a metered water service decades. D) The property at 1546 W. Cortez owned by former Director of Revenue Ernest Wish has no record of a water bill being paid for at least 52 years. Ernie Wish was also State Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Illinois, a principal in the Near North Insurance Agency, Head of the DePaul University Alumni Association and a Chicago City Clerk. The only record found for this property was a line on a 1948 Platt Map when the property was a bread board factory. It is time to pay up Ernie Wish. E) The restaurant operating out of a former fire station at 1400 S. Wabash received free water for years. It is noted that the restaurant receiving free water in Grant Park is currently run by the same people and friends of the same Daley appointed Commissioner of the Water Department, now Deputy Chief of Staff in the Mayor's Office that participated in targeting you for elimination. F) The building at 2831-45 N. Broadway has 5 restaurants and a beauty salon and has evaded paying for water service for the entire 25 years since it was built with fraud inside of the Water Department to help them keep from paying the bills. This property oddly enough has the name of Irene Caminer sprinkled throughout the documents eliminating water bills. This is the same attorney Irene Caminer that wanted to exclude your attorney Terry Brunner from attending your hearing. Caminer should have to explain why she has allowed this property to pay no water bills for the last decade that she has been a city attorney. Irene Caminer et. Al. should have to explain why the man that collects the rent, Lou Wolf does not pay for water for this property with 5 restaurants and a beauty salon. Perhaps it is time to take a good look at the other building where Lou Wolf collects the rent and the Chicago Water Department does not collect any money. G) Chicago Circle Cleaners, the laundry at 1423-31 W. Roosevelt had the property removed from Water Department records from 1986 until 1998. They received free water for 12 years until they were caught. Documents were manipulated inside of water collection to eliminate the account. The owner even filed paperwork to have money returned stipulating that his building had been raised. Of course it is a big building and is still on site. All of the records should be examined by the Federal Attorney for this building. Chicago citizens deserve a better more honest government than they have. Richard Daley has received numerous Certified Letters informing him of the Theft of Municipal Revenue, Fraud, Racketeering, Obstruction of Justice, and Mail Fraud in his administration. He has ignored his fiduciary duty. These letters are believed to be part of the boxes of documents seized by the Federal Attorney of the Northern District of Illinois from Daley's Office. Unfortunately, little action has occurred except for the firing of Alexander Vroustouris the former Inspector General, Richard Rice the former Commissioner of the Water Department and the resignation of Judith Rice the musical chair playing former Commissioner of the Water Department and appointed City Treasurer that voted to give $67 million in Municipal Pension Funds to Daley's nephew for investing and pay him a million dollars a year to do it. Vroustouris who was dictating falsification of reports to Inspector General Underlings has re-surfaced as a top prosecutor at 26th and California in the office of Cook County States Attorney Richard Devine.

Joseph Mario Moreno is a real corrupt joke

What no 1078 W?

Hey Lil Mick, did you have to ask directions again to find your way to this meeting or did you drop breadcrumbs behind you from your visit of the other day ?

black is white the sun rises in the west Todd Stroger is a reformer

It's pretty clear that Todd doesn't want the job after his tenure is over so we have that to look forward to.

That is true. Todd is unelectable for the next election.

btw there's 7.48 US gallons in a cubic foot

What's an Orwellian conversation about the county's health care system sound like?

Daley will assist Todd's re-election bid.

Everyone loves my master. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Daley rocks

I know Daley and his buffers do an excellent Can-Can. Chicagoclout.com feb 18

It is 7.48 not 7.14 that you refer to in the article. Check a conversion chart.

"Sandy March 7th - 6:51 p.m. It is 7.48 not 7.14 that you refer to in the article. Check a conversion chart." And you took the time to post a comment, yet had nothing better to say than this and this is the only point you got out of the posted comment? Why so brief? Cat got your tongue?

Greetings!!! I posted the article about the Water Department rip off of Chicago Water users originally on Frank Coconate.com Thanks for picking up the posting on the Reader Blog. I apologize for the error in gallon to metric feet conversion. I took the information on conversion form official Chicago Water Department documents given to me in 1983 for my own personal use. I never checked the accuracy of the documents and as you can see the Chicago Water Department that doesn't know the difference between gallon meters and those measuring in cubic feet also doesn't know the correct measurements. Thank you for proving that The Chicago Water Department is actually stealing more money from water users that I had imagined. I still have not seen a response from anyone that is being potentially ripped off. I have also not received any response from anyone in the news-media. Please, someone pass it along to Ben Jaworski at the Reader and have him contact me. Best Wishes, Jim Osborne A Dedicated Chicago Whistle Blower

Chicago’s True Facts Asswipe, King Daley Destroys my city daily He just plugged up his costly hole Twas supposed to be a tunnel For rich guy's to quickly funnel Themselves to the airport like moles His park went WAY over budget Used the poor's bucks to build it That's how he pays for his woes At midnite the sneaky little boy Had airport runways destroyed Made citizens pay the fine, too Now he says of the Olympics That Chicagoans want to host it Lies that the public won't have to pay On TV Chicago looks good But they don't show blighted 'hoods Raise parking prices everyday This grandfathered-in mope Keeps our great city broke & crook pals force the public out His do-nothings very well paid Service costs up exponentially & they ridicule good citizens who shout "Daley gets things done," some say, "His Machine runs HIS way!" Keeping us the most murdered persons' city Where the asthma cases are highest Lakes & rivers are pollution fests Worst jail, evil cops who murder, torture, & are shitty

Chicago sucks. I can't believe I spent 12 years of my life there. Glad I GTFO'd, don't miss it a bit, what a sewer. Here's a news flash, "you get the government you deserve".

It's just the tip of the iceberg. I can't name one honest politican that ever came out of this city.

Thanks for the info on the water meter. We had a new meter installed this fall. We had a City meter installed 3 years ago during consruction, so this was a big enough waste, but our "new" meter reads "gallons" and our water bill went off the charts. Now we know why.

Unless there is a great groundswell of voters, Stroeger will be reelected as he will have overwhelming support in the black commnunity. Do not forget the lesson of the mayor of Washington DC, Marion Berry, on video smoking crack. The voters put him back in office because of an alleged white conspiracy.Daley has to protect thousands of jobs and millions in contracts.He uses his brother, Beavers, Butler and a few others to control the county board.

Unless there is a great groundswell of voters, Stroeger will be reelected as he will have overwhelming support in the black commnunity. Do not forget the lesson of the mayor of Washington DC, Marion Berry, on video smoking crack. The voters put him back in office because of an alleged white conspiracy.Daley has to protect thousands of jobs and millions in contracts.He uses his brother, Beavers, Butler and a few others to control the county board. --------------------------------- That's why we no one will ever bring up wellfare reform. The Tax payers are footing the bill for hundreds of thousands of people to spend their entire lives as irresponsibly as humanly possible without ever attempting to get a job. Do you not think it's a little strange that you can go into almost any store on the west side and buy beer and cigarettes with a link card?

Chicago politicians/crooks and now we'll have all this great corruption on a national level. Sad thing is, it's not only in Chicago, however Chicago does do it best. Why don't the people feel like they can fight the government, they can stop corruption, they can take control back from dirty politicians. Bobs correct....."You get the government you deserve" or the one you don't pay any attention to. Same thing. You have to be in the fight to win the the fight........

The following e-mail was posted on the Chicago Sun Times Blog on January 10, 2009, in response to a posting about the elimination of Hired Truck Program Monitor Bob Benson by Mayor Richard M. Daley by Chicago Whistle Blower Jim Osborne. Greetings! The Daley Administration never was interested in cleaning up the corruption in the Hired Truck Program. They were only interested in managing the cover up. Any money that was collected by Bob Benson was an additional irritation to the Daley insiders that wanted business as usual to be restored. The Hired Truck corruption was only a small portion of the overall Daley Administration Managed Corruption in Chicago. Yes, I said Daley Administration managed corruption. The managed corruption is everywhere. For decades the Daley family had little worry about detection of their family generated corruption. The appointment of Patrick Fitzgerald an outsider rocked the boat. There is substantially enough currently available and offered to Patrick Fitzgerald indict Daley and a score of his current and former high placed Aides. It is however baffling why he has been reluctant to proceed against Daley. Absolutely nothing of substance has transpired since the day that the Sorich Conviction was announced. I will write more on that later. I personally witnessed the overt corruption in the Water Department. I reported it as an Assessor inside of Water Collection opening new accounts and dispatching Field Assessors and Plumbing Inspectors to investigate properties that were illegally not metered or those that were not paying a bill at all. The response was to threaten my life and job. I found millions of dollars that were not being collected in Water Collection from thousands of properties. Virtually none of it has ever been collected even though the Daley Administration has had a substantial portion of the corruption information since 1998. The Daley Administration was not interested in collecting lost revenue in the Water Department and investigating the fraud involved by Water Department employees that had been carefully placed by the Daley Administration in positions to actually protect the water thieves and those that were eliminating billing for friends, family and personal gain from being discovered. When I came under attack for dispatching plumbing inspectors and field assessors to investigate properties that were not paying for water service or substantially underpaying I notified the Mayor of Chicago repeatedly in a series of letters sent VIA Certified Mail with a return receipt. The Mayor of Chicago was notified of the corruption in detail. The response was complete silence. I should relate that I have been told that these letters were among the documents that were seized by Federal Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. I can not substantiate that Fitzgerald has them, because I am waiting 7 years and 28 days for an FBI Agent that he sent to talk to me. He must have been from out of town or got mugged on the way to see me. Fitzgerald has had at least 45 pages of my corruption records sent to him VIA Fax on December 13, 2001. He politely responded that the FBI would contact me. Subsequent letters complaining about the non responsive FBI in Chicago sent VIA Certified Mail – Return Receipt have received no response. Telephone calls to the FBI received outrageous responses from those answering the telephone and in one case from a Chinese woman pretending to be an FBI Agent. Perhaps I got Daley’s Office of Governmental Affairs by mistake. Daley’s former Inspector General Alexander Vroustouris and Corporation Council Maura Mutz AKA Georges and their offices actually participated in the cover up of the theft of municipal revenue and the fraud in the Water Department. The Chicago Inspector General’s Office under Vroustouris and the Corporation Counsel’s office along with other elements of the Daley Administration actually engaged in racketeering, obstruction of justice, fraud, and mail fraud to cover up the criminal activity occurring in the Water Department. Naturally Mutz AKA Georges and Vroustouris will both deny my accusation if they should be confronted. I challenge both of them to take a polygraph exam if they refute their activities. I wrote letters to Daley and all 50 Chicago Aldermen explaining why Vroustouris should be fired as Inspector General and then prosecuted. Naturally I got no response from the Mayor or any of the 50 Aldermen many of which I have known for decades. Not one was willing to rock the boat and ask for an investigation. Those that are attorneys should remember their responsibilities as officers of the court in regard to corruption. When Vroustouris was finally replaced by Inspector General David Hoffmann I provide Hoffmann with several hundred pages of bound documentation on the corruption taking place in the Water Department. I also offered to provide more. To date the offer of more information on the corruption inside of the Water Department has not been answered. The cover up continues. Unfortunately the cover up has even extended to the News Media in Chicago. While trucks that make noise and sound bites have been popularly featured, complex managed corruption inside of the Water Department and the “Hitler or Stalin” like tactics used by the Daley Administration to cover up the existence of the criminal activity has not garnered much attention. Perhaps it has looked like too much work for many of the media people that I have talked to. Since the Daley Administration has controlled everything from aldermanic appointments of more than 60% of the City Council, to judicial appointments and slating of candidates for most offices it would also be feasible that the fifth floor of city hall is also controlling editorial boards that do not allow most reporters to investigate and publish corruption articles. I should publish the list of reporters and media people that have ignored the most significant amount of Chicago corruption, theft of municipal revenue and fraud from an insider in a sensitive position. My contention is that the corruption is massive. It is also continuing and growing instead of diminishing with the 46 plus convictions secured by the Federal Attorneys. There are not enough Federal Attorneys or FBI Agents in the entire United States to tackle all of the Daley Administration corruption. Unfortunately since President George Bush decided that he would travel to Chicago to have his birthday party here with Mayor Richard M. Daley, I have witnessed no indictments or serious investigations into the Daley Administration organized corruption. Is the Daley Administration now above the law? When the President of Mexico was invited to Chicago, where was the Federal Attorney? Was Daley conspiring with the President of Mexico to block extradition of Marco Morales the federal witness that fled to Mexico to avoid testimony that might lead to an indictment of Daley? How could the United States Attorney General miss such an inappropriate meeting? Perhaps he was too busy trying to give Patrick Fitzgerald falsified performance rating. Still I can not believe that Daley got away with witness tampering. While Patrick Fitzgerald has produced a significant number of indictments and convictions he has entirely ignored the Dirty Dick Daley Mob Institutionalized Corruption since the Bush Daley birthday party. Why????? Again I ask, is the Daley Administration above the law? If not I will publicly offer to give you a Chicago city corruption tour. I will begin the tour for Fitzgerald and Grant on the south east corner of Broadway and Surf Streets. I will tell you to look at the building with 5 restaurants and a beauty salon that is 25 years old. It is a nice building. Then I will tell you that in the 25 years that the building is on this corner with 5 restaurants and a beauty salon that it has managed to not pay for even one glass of water. In 25 years of records I can not find any payment of property taxes on this building worth as much as $3 million dollars. What I do find are a long sequence of bankruptcy filings. Every time that a bankruptcy is filed the property is bought for taxes in another company name. The actual owner’s name, the man that collects the rent never has his name on the property record. The tax deeds issued are all sent to the same office of the man that collects the rent. He always collects the rent. He never pays for water and taxes on a $3 million dollar building. Once this property actually had the water shut off for non payment of the bill. It had been posted for water service termination for non payment of $15,000.00 in water billing. The man that collects the rent went to the Water Department at 333 S. State Street in the same building where Bob Benson worked. The real owner issued a $2,000.00 check and was able to have the water service restored. Naturally the check bounced and no effort was ever made to collect the money for the bad check or prosecuted the man for issuing a bad check. Instead the clerk that had issued the shut off order was abruptly transferred to another undesirable job for offending a Daley Mob insider who has mastered the art of not paying for water or taxes. The real owner of this property probably has more than a thousand properties in Chicago during the last 25 years and I suspect that most of them had similar situations with non payment of water billing and elimination of taxes. How does he get away with defrauding the City of Chicago? Who are the cooperating conspirators that are allowing him to run up huge water bills without paying? Who is the Chicago city attorney that files Water Department liens against the property, but makes no effort to have the water shut off or the bill collected? This is the same Water Department attorney sent to talk to me by former Deputy Commissioner Viria Holland when I reported the billing irregularity to her in 1998. She was outraged that I thought that there was a problem with this account. I knew about the problems because I had been sent to read the meter prior to the water service termination. I did not know at the time that the attorney was involved in putting liens on the property. I have since learned that this attorney’s husband is on the Staff of Mayor Richard M. Daley. Who does this little man with such a successful plot pay inside the Daley Administration to continue the process? Federal Attorney Fitzgerald and FBI Agent in Charge Grant should meet me on the corner of Broadway and Surf and take my tour. A second stop on the corruption tour could be the building at 1546 W. Cortez that is or was owned by Ernie Wish, Daley’s former head of the Department of Revenue and the Boot Meister that established the crooked Department of Revenue boot program to extort money from Chicagoans for phony violations. This program is just another version of the Greylord corruption. Meanwhile Ernie has a building that has no record of paying for water service. The only available record was a line on a 1948 map showing that there was an account at the address and the meter control number. In 1998 the water theft was discovered while he was Director of Revenue for the City of Chicago and Head of the DePaul University Alumni Association. Suddenly he changed jobs and became Illinois State Superintendent of Public Instruction for Governor George Ryan. Ernie was back billed $4,600.00 for the 4 flat based on a fixture count for 5 years. Nothing was however paid. He got another year of free water before any water was paid for. I could take the Feds to Bridgeport Village and show them how it all sprung up without permits or metered water service and probably without property index numbers to pay taxes. I could show them the homes of the Daley insiders. I could take them to the north side and show them several thousand relatively new properties that were constructed by a company owned by an Alderman that have been granted plumbing permits that violate Municipal Code and show them the absence of water meters for many square blocks with many properties lacking property index numbers. There is no end to the Institutionalized Corruption. It has only escalated during the time that Fitzgerald has been in Chicago. For every Daley mobster that he indicts there are 100 more that he should be investigating. If Fitzgerald and Grant do not want to go so far away from their offices I could even give them a tour of 333 S. State Street and show them what records to seize. I could take them to the Recorder of Deeds office and show them what documents that they need to obtain. I could show them the desk where the unmarked envelops full of cash were dropped for the Dirty Dick Daley Mob Bagman. I could take them to the Jardine Filtration Plant past the sleeping guards hired by Daley and show them where the records of corruption for many Water Department accounts are hidden. I could take them to the Building Department Conference Room and show them where more of the Water Department records of corruption are hidden. I could show them where the falsified performance ratings are stored that were dictated from the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs to eliminate job holders for Victor Reyes to have positions to fill for his Hispanic Democratic Organization the name chosen for Daley’s new political friends in his attempt to circumvent the Shakman Accord. I can even give them the list of performance ratings for each of the Water Rate Takers and Assessors pre-determined and dictated to supervisors. I could take them for a stroll down Taylor Street and show them how the family of a Cook County Circuit Judge is allowed to have an interest in a property that has no property tax records or property index number. How do you own a 4 flat in Chicago and not pay any taxes? I could take them to the old Taylor Street office of Daley’s Alderman, Burt Natarus who operated his Taylor Street office along with Cook County States Attorney Dick Devine in a building that was illegally not metered for water service but also has a rear building that has not paid taxes in my lifetime, just like the building directly east of it. I could even take them down the street to Leona’s Taylor Street a restaurant with good pizza that had no ice water from opening day until 2000. There only water was “hot water” stolen by pretending to be a single family home with a senior citizen instead of a restaurant serving ice water and using a lot of water. The property has had a history of not paying for water. Back in 1974 this restaurant was Joe Prisco’s Coffee Shop which was the first Illinois Lottery Outlet. In 1974 the property was already stealing water. The Daley Administration has not only defended providing this restaurant with virtually free water for 3 decades, but have blatantly provided more free water and no back billing after discover of the 30 year water theft. After the property was discovered without a water meter operating under the most common name on Chicago Water Department records: Owner/Occupant a member of the owner’s family that ran Customer Service in the Water Department at 333 S. State suddenly changed jobs and was hidden away near Commissioner Judy Rice at the Jardine Water Treatment Facility handling Water Department Personnel Records. This business and the property owners received more than 20 years of virtually free water. Their Prodigal son was promoted up and finally hidden away at 333 S. State on the 4th floor with a high paying job that resulted in an enormous pension. He too is in the Daley family database from a family related to the D’Arco family. This is an example of theft of municipal revenue and fraud inside of the Water Department. It is not an isolated case. There are thousands more. The Daley Administration of father and son have created these water revenue thefts and Richard M. Daley and his Administration work more diligently to cover up the criminal activity than they do on anything else. As for Bob Benson and Inspector General David Hoffmann, they were only intended to be “window dressing” to give the illusion that the Daley Administration was actually trying to clean up the corruption. Unfortunately some of us know the truth and have paid dearly from the Dirty Dick Daley Mob retaliation. It is Institutionalized Corruption controlled by the Mayor’s Office and his flock of genuflect and steal political hacks. A perfect example of the overt abuse of a city employee is the case of Frank Coconate before the rigged Chicago Personnel Board. I have witnessed most of the Personnel Board Hearing. All of the Personnel Board Members were appointed by Richard M. Daley and the Hearing Officer’s serve at his whim. Coconate an exemplary employee was fired from his job in the Water Department with false charges. His attorney was barred from attending his preliminary Water Department hearing by the same Chicago Attorney that files the liens against the property at Broadway and Surf and then eliminates the water billing when the man buys his property at a tax sale in a different name. Coconate was fired and the Personnel Board sustained the complaint brought against him with falsified reports and testimony. He was fortunate to have two super attorneys represent him. Terry Brunner the former head of the Chicago Better Government Association came out of retirement in New Mexico and has been flying to Chicago to represent Coconate ‘pro bono” along with a terrific attorney named Frank Avila. The principal witness against him Jan Peska quit her city job and moved to Florida after she had been subpoenaed. The City of Chicago knew that she was quitting her job and moving out of state and did nothing to force her to testify in accordance with the subpoena. This was just another one of the Daley Administration’s “good people” as he calls them. For the Daley Administration this case is just another serious breach of the law. This Personnel Board head has a vested interest in doing Daley’s bidding. He is receiving several million dollars for funding programs in his church from the Daley Administration. The other Personnel Board members have similar conflicts as do the hearing officers. The entire Personnel Board should be eliminated at a substantial savings. Their proceedings are a farce. Federal Attorney Fitzgerald and FBI Agent in Charge Grant should be introduced to the Personnel Board also. The Personnel Board only rules the way that the Daley Administration wants them to rule. They are an administrative tool of the Pervasive Personnel Conspiracy that has cost the City of Chicago probably more than $20,000,000.00 in legal fees and settlement of the Shakman Accord law suit. Michael Shakman and friends saw the violations of the Shakman Accord law suit from the captured Sorich List, but they neglected to comprehend just how the Daley Administration was using the Inspector General’s Office under Alexander Vroustouris, the Personnel Board, and the Corporation Counsel’s Office under Maura Mutz AKA Georges, plus special employees in each department used to target city employees for elimination. This was the “dark side” of the Pervasive Personnel Conspiracy. The Sorich List was only a small snapshot of the operation that existed. The missing list could be reconstructed from the records of investigations that took place under Inspector General Alexander Vroustouris and the employees that were brought before the Personnel Board. There were not enough vacant city jobs to supply the minions of new friend of Richard M. Daley marching for Victor Reyes, and pretending to be precinct captains. Employees had to be eliminated to provide jobs for the Sorich Clout List and the various lists kept by Victor Reyes before Sorich replaced him. How many people were illegally eliminated from employment with the City of Chicago by the Dirty Dick Daley Gestapo operation and their complimentary kangaroo court called the Chicago Personnel Board? From my perspective most of these folks belong in an orange jump suit, and just not Robert Sorich. It is amazing that such an operation could exist in the United States without serious prosecution. Of course when you control every facet of life in Chicago like Daley does getting him prosecuted and convicted is absurdly difficult. Meanwhile the City of Chicago is operated for friends family and personal gain. Friend of the Daley Administration often do not pay for water service, taxes or business license. They often do not obtain building permits or obtain permits to attach to municipal water lines. They routinely violate municipal codes. Recently thousands of new properties have been constructed city wide without having required water meters. Many of them do not even have Cook County Property Tax Index Numbers so they are not paying property taxes even several years after they have been built. Other properties have been built without paying for water service. Even after more than 50 convictions since Patrick Fitzgerald came to Chicago it has been business as usual in city that wants to have an Olympic Games. Chicago is so crooked that if an Olympic Games came to town the Daley Administration would hall away all of the Gold Medals just like they are preparing to do with Municipal Pension Funds. Where else could you appoint members of the Pension Boards and then have them vote to give your nephew control of $67 million in Municipal Pension Funds to invest and even give him $996,000.00 every year to make the investments. If most of us went out and tried to borrow $67 million to invest the first question that we would hear before the horrendous laugh would be what collateral do you have? In the case of the Daley nephew he got a $67 million dollar interest free loan and was paid nearly a million dollars a year to cart off Municipal Pension Funds without having any liability if he loses all of the money, steals it, or gets it stolen or loses it in the construction site at the old Chicago Defender building whose owner he has given $1 million in Municipal Pension Funds to purchase the building and renovate it into a restaurant. This is the same Daley insider that has the restaurant in Millennium Park that was not paying for gas, water, garbage removal or taxes. It is the same restaurant owner that was operating a restaurant out of a Chicago Fire Station without paying for water and probably pretending to be a fire station for tax purposes. There is no question that Federal Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and FBI Agent in Charge Grant need a Chicago City Tour. I will also offer a tour to any legitimate industrious reporter or Chicago Newspaper Editorial Board member that is not on the Daley payroll. Short of occupation by federal troops and invoking RICCO Statutes against the City of Chicago I see no solution to the Institutionalized Corruption of the Dirty Dick Daley Mob. Poor Chicago deserves better government. The poor tax payers deserve a level playing field that does not reward Daley insiders free water and free taxes for decades requiring them to pay more. After the troops and RICCO attorneys arrive Chicago should be thinking of eliminating 35 of the 50 Alderman positions plus their staffs and more than 30 of the Streets and Sanitation Ward Yards. Chicago should be eliminating most of the Assistant Commissioners and all of the phony titled positions of the State Representatives and State Senators that are double dipping at the public trough. There should be term limitations for all Chicago Aldermen and elimination of the Mayor’s office in favor of a paid city manager. The more than 29 people in the Mayor’s office receiving more than $100,000.00 a years should be eliminated. The entire Chicago Corporation Counsel should be replaced with a court jester and a dozen clowns. After what I have witnessed by attending Frank Coconate’s Personnel Board hearing the jester and clowns would be a better use of municipal funds. The Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and all Chicago offices outside of Chicago should be immediately eliminated. The “genuflect and steal” politicians of Chicago should be excommunicated. Daley should repay the City of Chicago the legal fees and damages awarded in his Pervasive Personnel Conspiracy. All of the phony charities should begin to pay for water and taxes. Allowing them to receive free water and tax exemptions forces all of the other Chicago Tax Payers to pay more. The TIFs should also be eliminated. Every contract issued by the Daley Administration should be carefully examined by Federal Attorneys. There have been very few contract, if any during the Daley Administration that were legitimate unless a mistake was made. The $137 million in minority set aside contracts awarded to James Duff and his mother were known to Daley. Patricia Green Duff’s mother, Alice Green was a Daley insider supervising the telephones in City Hall for Mayor Richard J. Daley who was put in office by the Old First Ward Organization of Bruno “The Bomber” Roti a Capone henchman. This was the same Alfonse Capone for whom Henry Guilfoyle the brother in law of Richard J. Daley worked. Heine Guilfoyle ran an area of the north side near Armitage and Pulaski for Capone plus he managed the Penthouse a super sized speak easy on north Pine Grove. The connections between the Roti and D’Arco family of the Old First Ward and the Daley family was complicated with the marriage of Cook County Commissioner John Daley to Mary Lou Briatta the daughter of Old First Ward Outfit Gambling Boss. This marriage and a second Daley/Briatta marriage created some unusual circumstances for the family of Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Would you believe that I have the Daley genealogy database and now it includes such Chicago luminaries as Al Capone, Frank Mariote, Bruno “The Bomber” Roti, John D’Arco, Joey “The Clown” Lombardo, Frank Nitti, Tony Accardo, Joe “The Builder” Andriacchi, Harry Aleman the famous Chicago hit man, Frank Carusso, 26th Street Outfit Crew Chief and labor leader, Dominic Senese a lieutenant in the Joey Lombardo family under Jackie Cerone and Joseph Aiuppa. Many of the allied families in this database are prominently represented on the Sorich List of the Pervasive Personnel Conspiracy. A major portion of the management of Chicago’s Institutionalized Corruption emulate from the Daley – Roti – D’Arco – Capone – Lombardo – Mariote – Accardo – Senese – Nitti – Andriacchi – and Allied Families Genealogy. I should note that there are many good people that are members of these families and other Allied Families. Linking the families through marriages helps to explain how corruption, job selections, and clout work in the City of Chicago. From Capone until today the only Chicago Outfit head that is not currently in the Daley Genealogy Database is Sam Giancanna, but I can even connect him with just a few more obituaries. It has become rather obvious that Daley has been off limits to Patrick Fitzgerald since the Bush birthday party in Chicago on the very day that the Sorich conviction was announced. Although President elect Obama and Senator Dick Durbin have both stated that they want to keep Fitzgerald in Chicago I do not see it happening. I anticipate that Dick Durbin will get a telephone call from Daley telling him the name of new Federal Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois who will naturally be a village idiot with a law degree that will naturally not see Dirty Dick Daley Mob corruption. In conclusion: No, Bob Benson and Inspector General David Hoffmann you are not expected to collect the purposely lost revenue or investigate corruption. It all emulates from the fifth floor of City Hall and Dirty Dick Daley, son of Boss and it is protected. You are merely a stone in the Mayor’s shoe as Frank Coconate and I have been. Best Wishes from a Dedicated Chicago Whistle Blower, Jim Osborne PS: Copies will be mailed Certified Mail Return Receipt to Patrick Fitzgerald and to Mayor Richard M. Daley. Our bridges fall up, our river leaks and we have the most corrupt public administration in American History. — Jim Osborne Chicago Whistle Blower