Chicago official charged in alleged tree-cutting scheme

The Chicago Sun-Times has more on the evolving corruption in Chicago:

The former third-in-command at the city of Chicago's Bureau of Forestry was charged with obstruction of justice Wednesday for allegedly telling employees to lie to federal agents investigating whether city workers used city equipment to cut down healthy trees for a private developer.

Bruno Anthony Bertucci, 53, agreed to share a $5,000 bribe from John "Quarters" Boyle, a city employee charged with taking payoffs in the Hired Truck scandal, a complaint unsealed Wednesday by federal officials said. The complaint said a developer wanted to install a driveway where two city-owned trees grew at 1905-1907 N. Burling in Lincoln Park even though neighbors and the alderman opposed taking them down.

You probably understand why high taxes,unions, and the mob are what the Chicago way is all about.