01 October 2021

Chicago's Hall of Shame

I can't even fake being shocked about another corrupt Chicago politician. Former Ald. Muñoz joins long roster of convicted members of Chicago City Council - Chicago Sun-Times

The numbers in the quotes below refer to the Chicago voting districts that they represented.

Former Ald. Ricardo Muñoz (22nd) is the latest member the Chicago City Hall of Shame.

With his guilty plea Monday to wire fraud and money laundering, Munoz becomes the 36th member of the City Council to be convicted of a crime since the early 1970s.

There have been 36 convitions in about 50 years. That is more than one conviction every other year. Do you think they convicted every Chicago politician engaged in questionable acts? You have more faith in the FBI and the Chicago police than I do.

Munoz is the first former or sitting Chicago alderperson to be convicted since Ald. Willie Cochran’s 2019 guilty plea added him to the ever-growing roster of those who’ve been found guilty of a crime — extortion, embezzlement, tax evasion and bribery among them.

The article includes a list of the aldercrooks, and few highlights.

The ranks of the fallen also includes the father and son duo of William Carothers (28th) and Isaac “Ike” Carothers (29th), convicted nearly 30 years apart of unrelated crimes.

And there’s Ambrosio Medrano (25th), the Grover Cleveland of Chicago corruption, earning a place on the list three times for three separate corruption scandals.

The Democratic Party of Chicago (and Illinois in general) have given us Rod Blagojevich, and Paul Powell, and others. If you look up "Corrupt Politician" in the dictionary, what do you think you would see? I wouldn't be surprised to see the skyline of Chicago or a map of the State of Illinois.

2 comments:

  1. Did not B. Hussain Obama get his start in Illinois politics? I guess he just never got caught!!

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    1. He got caught. It just got swept under the rug.

      The Rezko Connection: Obama's Achilles Heel?

      "In sharp contrast to his tough talk about ethics reform in government, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., approached a well-known Illinois political fixer under active federal investigation, Antoin "Tony" Rezko, for "advice" as he sought to find a way to buy a house shortly after being elected to the United States Senate."

      The "advice" included what looked like an under-the-table gift of a couple of hundred thousand bucks. For a favor to be named at a future date.

      Rezko got convicted of some flavor of corruption shortly after that.

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