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Shadowy $1.3 million payroll helps them get around ban on patronage hiring. As City Hall struggles to pay for basic services, a stealth budget account worth millions has allowed Chicago aldermen to put family members, campaign operatives and those with political baggage on yet another taxpayer-funded payroll.
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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/11/friends-family-fund-for-chica...
you can see the aldermanic Friends & Family fund in the 2009 budget
http://egov.cityofchicago.org/webportal/COCWebPortal/COC_ATTACH/2009_App...
see PDF page 42, budget page 37
9001
For the Employment of Personnel as Needed by the Aldermen to Perform Secretarial, Clerical, Stenographic, Research, Investigations or Other Functions Expressly Related to the Office of Alderman, Provided That No Expenditure Shall Be Made From This Account for the Purpose Enumerated Unless the Comptroller Shall Be So Authorized in Writing by the Chairman of The Committee on Finance
$1,326,000
Won't MCI Worldcom take exception to borrowed naming rights, Hugh?
The jobs for friends and family further poisons the faith in aldermen by the taxpayers who have to pay for it.
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