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Gapers Block : Mechanics : Chicago Politics - Telling No Tales
By admin | May 18, 2010
Gapers Block : Mechanics : Chicago Politics - Telling No Tales
Telling No Tales
The Northwest Herald has reported that troubled Metra chief Phil Pagano killed himself this morning — by walking in front of a Metra train. The apparent suicide follows a number of actions taken by the commuter rail transit agency against its director, who made more than a quarter-million dollars salary, following reports that he padded that amount without authorization, and the launch of a criminal investigation by the Cook County State’s Attorney.
Pagano’s death makes the third suicide by a Top Player Under Investigation in the past 8 months. In September, top Blagojevich advisor Christopher Kelly overdosed before commencing a prison term for tax fraud, and a week after pleading guilty to a separate multi-million dollar O’Hare contracting fraud, with an additional June, 2010 corruption trial still pending. In November, the body of Chicago schools chief Michael Scott was pulled from the Chicago River. Scott had been subpoenaed in a federal investigation of clout-based admissions practices at elite Chicago magnet high schools, and earlier in the year had been revealed as having bought up real estate around a proposed Chicago Olympics venue while serving as a member of the 2016 Olympic committee.
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