Ex-Con Runs Cook County Veterans Program

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Cook County officials put an ex-con in charge of payroll and cash-handling for a program intended to help needy veterans.

And for years, records show, Andre Baker was left "unsupervised" as cash, food stamps and bus cards disappeared, unbeknownst to county officials who admit they never conducted a background check before hiring him.



And when Baker committed an unrelated parole violation and went back to state prison in late 2005, he remained on the county payroll for months afterward -- even collecting holiday pay for Christmas and New Year's.

"This is just outrageous," said Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, a veteran who chairs the county's Veterans Committee. "The real tragedy here is we don't have very many dollars for our veterans in the first place. So to have anyone stealing from them is terrible."

No word yet from activist Democrats on how this could happen in Cook County.What better proof than this:in politics the worst people make it to the top.