There was another set of indictments in Chicago the other day as the Feds continue to attack the city's hiring practices. This time, they got the guy who is in charge of the Mayor's Patronage Hiring Department (which has some other name that escapes me).
Apparently, people are coming out of the woodwork to cooperate with authorities in the hopes of leniency. Among the incidents cited in the indictment was a case of a dead guy getting a job that he interviewed for after he was technically deceased. Nobody complained that he was "late" for his interview (editor: insert rim shot here).
Another job went to a soldier who was deployed in Iraq at the time of his supposed interview.
A third went to a guy who showed up drunk for the interview. When the personnel manager appealed to the head of the PHD about the applicant, he said to just do the best he could with him.
The Chicago Tribune, in an editorial yesterday, called these revelations "jaw-dropping." You would think an entity that had been around as long as the Tribune would know better. The only thing that would be jaw-dropping about Chicago's hiring practices is if they were clean.
Mayor Daley better watch his seat. The Feds may be getting ready to set fire to it.
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