AP: FBI Agents Raid Cook County Office

[Eugene]

FBI Agents Raid Cook County Office

Thursday, September 21, 2006

(09-21) 11:33 PDT Chicago (AP) --

FBI agents Thursday raided the offices where the Cook County government
keeps its hiring records.

FBI spokeswoman Cynthia Yates would not say what the investigation was
about.

However, Mayor Richard M. Daley's patronage chief and four other former
city officials are awaiting sentencing for a scheme to subvert a ban
on patronage hiring, or doling out jobs according to applicants' political
connections. Daley has not been accused of any wrongdoing.

Chinta Strausberg, a spokeswoman for acting Cook County Board President
Bobbie Steele, said only: "We are fully cooperating with the investigation."

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Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/09/21/national/a105525D10.DTL

[Sanity Claws]

1. How can the Fed Govt accuse someone else of patronage hiring?

This Bush adminsitration is the worst offender.