Flashback-Powerful Chicago Alderman Burke's aide, not women, ran truck firm: city

The Chicago Sun-Times ran this story 5 years ago:

Ald. Edward Burke's top political aide was running a trucking company in the name of his wife and another woman to get work as a woman-owned firm under the city's scandal-ridden Hired Truck Program, Mayor Daley's inspector general has concluded.

Inspector General Alexander Vroustouris is recommending that the company, Base Trucking, be stripped of its favored status as a woman-owned business and barred from the program.

The inspector general's findings directly contradict assertions by Burke earlier this year when the Chicago Sun-Times first wrote about Base Trucking. Burke then insisted the company was run by the wives of his political right-hand man, Peter J. Andrews, and Andrews' business partner, John McGuire.

Vroustouris is suggesting the regulatory equivalent of the death penalty for Base Trucking after several Base employees told his investigators that the company was run by the husbands.

No word yet on whether Alderman Burke and Pete Andrews are having a major celebration on the five year anniversary of this story. Also, no word yet from Pat Fitzgerald on this one.