No work, full pay for Chicago Mob Linked Alderman's Pal

He's not your ordinary Alderman. But, long serving Alderman Bernard Stone: best friends with (high ranking made member of the Chicago Mob, Fred Roti) is back in the news. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Chicago is so strapped for cash that it's cutting services and draining reserves. So why was a 50th Ward superintendent allowed to do nothing for nearly two years while awaiting trial for absentee-ballot fraud, all the while collecting his $83,940-a-year salary?

That's a question floating around the city Streets and Sanitation Department, where Commissioner Tom Byrne has been cracking down on rampant absenteeism that sidelines nearly a third of all laborers every day.

Anish Eapen ended up getting paid to be absent for nearly two years.

Former city Inspector General David Hoffman had recommended that he be fired amid allegations he manipulated absentee ballots to benefit Ald. Bernard Stone (50th) in the hotly contested 2007 aldermanic election. Eapen is a 50th Ward Democratic precinct captain picked by Stone.

Alderman Stone associates with some real classy people!