Jesse Jackson Jr. Writes Letter To Pat Fitzgerald to Investigate Daley Patronage Worker's Compensation Claims

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who's mulling a bid for mayor, wants U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald to investigate the high incidence of workers compensation claims filed by city workers whose names were on the clout list kept by Mayor Daley's former patronage director.

"It's hard for me to believe that city patronage workers face a greater risk of on-the-job injury than coal miners, steelworkers, and slaughterhouse butchers,'' Jackson wrote to Fitzgerald on Tuesday. "That tells me that either the city lacks the necessary safeguards to protect staff, or that workers are filing and collecting on false claims.''

The U.S. attorney's office had no comment.

The Democratic Party in Chicago isn't one big happy family right now.