The Chicago Daily Observer reports on a new book on corruption about a former Governor NOT named Blagojevich:
–Wrecked the civil service system and hired his friends, the crooked-er the better.Order the book at Amazon.
–Sold thousands of pardons and paroles as governor-to gangsters, white slavers.
–Was indicted on a charge he embezzled more than $1 million while state treasurer before his term as governor…but beat the charges and was acquitted…after which he
–Paid off the jurors with state jobs. A former cab driver from Antioch was named deputy game warden. Two others were made state highway patrolmen, The jury foreman got a job as drainage inspector at Stateville. But then
–Hired two gangsters who bribed the jury for Small; they refused to testify and were jailed for contempt-but Governor Small quickly pardoned them.
–He sued to recover interest money on state funds he kept for himself after which he kept for himself…following which he
–Vetoed an appropriation to pay for prosecution of the civil suit against him, also vetoing the entire $250,000 the AG was planning to use for law enforcement…but he wasn’t all bad because he
–Did pay the state back $650,000 he owed but...
