Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Chicago Zoning inspector accused of taking $20K in bribes : Charged in probe that has claimed 15 city workers

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
A Chicago zoning inspector was arrested Tuesday for allegedly taking bribes from a permit "expediter" cooperating with federal investigators, authorities said.
Just one bad apple?:
Operation Crooked Code -- an undercover city-federal investigation that has netted nearly two dozen people, including 15 city employees, on charges that cash bribes and lucrative gifts were paid to ignore building code violations and speed up paperwork.
For more on the concept of Chicago's city government being nothing more than a racketeering enterprise: read this.