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$44,256 to check email? Feds balk in case tied to Daley son

March 4, 2013
Chicago Sun-Times

By TIM NOVAK Staff Reporter

A big Chicago law firm is demanding $44,256 for a search of emails that a federal agency wanted in a case involving Cardinal Growth, a venture capital firm tied to former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son, Patrick Daley.

The U.S. Small Business Administration says taxpayers shouldn’t have to pay, and it’s fighting the bill in federal court.

The agency seized Cardinal Growth in 2011 over $21.4 million in unpaid loans the Chicago fund got from the SBA to invest in several businesses.

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Federal government takes over fund with ties to Daley’s son, Patrick

June 27, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By Tim Novak

A Chicago venture capital fund whose projects paid more than $1.2 million to former Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son has been taken over by the federal government, which says the fund owes taxpayers $21.4 million.

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Ethics laws can’t stop every schemer (Editorial)

June 8, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

It is in the nature of an editorial page to stand up for integrity in public life, to champion political reform and to pursue the holy grail of clean government.

You know, to be goo-goos.

But there are weeks — this being one — when we feel a bit like chumps, reminded once again that all the laws in the world can’t deter one truly single-minded schemer.

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Former Mayor Daley’s son profited after airport Wi-Fi deal

June 6, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

THIS WEEK BY TIM NOVAK & CHRIS FUSCO

For years, City Hall maintained that Mayor Richard M. Daley’s son, Patrick Daley, had no financial stake in the deal that brought wireless Internet service to city-owned O’Hare Airport and Midway Airport.

But it turns out that the younger Daley still reaped a windfall of $708,999 when Concourse Communications was sold in 2006, less than a year after the Chicago company signed the multimillion-dollar Wi-Fi contract with his father’s administration, company documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times show.

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