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Another City Council Stealth Budget?

April 13, 2010

By HUGH DEVLIN
Contributing Writer


An ongoing, well documented investigative series by the Chicago Tribune into various City Council expense accounts turned up numerous instances of city taxpayers’ largesse to the friends and family members of Chicago aldermen.

Suspended city commissioner moved to Police Department

April 13, 2010

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter
After serving an unprecedented unpaid three-month suspension for paying millions to a man who once defrauded the city, Fleet Management Commissioner Michael Picardi has found a soft landing at the Chicago Police Department.

Picardi has been reassigned to a $129,096-a-year job as “deputy director” of General Support, which includes the police auto pound, the Equipment and Supply Section, Document Services and Graphics.