A clout-heavy law firm paid $38.1 million to collect overdue Chicago parking tickets and other debt is still rolling in city business -- one year after it was supposed to be fired for bankrolling an Arizona trip for a high-ranking Revenue Department official.No word yet from Alderman Ed Burke on this one.
On Feb. 9, 2008, the law firm of Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson was accused of picking up the 2003 travel tab for First Deputy Revenue Director Robert Forgue, even though Forgue had contract management authority over the firm.
Forgue resigned his $137,088-a-year job after Inspector General David Hoffman recommended his firing. Hoffman also urged the city to stop doing business with the law firm that had raked in $33.6 million since 2002. Corporation Counsel Mara Georges agreed.
Instead, the gravy train has continued.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Law firm Chicago vowed to fire still getting business a year later
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
