Mar 28 2008
Chicago Settles for $12 Million on Patronage
Crossposted from Chicago Tribune:
A court-appointed official on Thursday gave an accounting of how hundreds of victims of political patronage at City Hall will share in a $12 million settlement and expressed concern that Mayor Richard Daley’s administration still has not disciplined several supervisors who abused the city’s hiring process…
Brennan said a single individual, a longtime city laborer, received the $100,000 maximum. Her report does not provide names of those getting awards, and Brennan declined to identify the laborer.
“He’s a gentleman who worked at the city for decades in one of the lowest-paying positions and was unable to get out of that position because he did not support the favored political candidate,” Brennan said in an interview. “He suffered significant damages.”…
A total of 1,424 people got an average award of about $8,400 after submitting evidence they were harmed by the city’s actions between the beginning of 2000 and the end of last May.
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