How Northwestern kept its grip on Cook County traffic school : Hires Chicago Mob Member's Daughter in Law Mary Daley Briatta

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Drivers caught speeding or rolling through stop signs in Cook County have a way to keep their driving record clean -- and their car insurance from going up.

Just pay $40 and take a four-hour traffic-safety class. Strapped for time? Pay $60, and do the class online.


It's a small price for drivers. But it adds up -- to millions of dollars a year -- for whoever runs traffic school.

For nearly two decades, that was Northwestern University, which ran the Cook County court system's traffic school in partnership with the National Safety Council.

There's more to this story. There's Mary Daley Briatta. Mary Daley Briatta's father in law was Louie "the barber" Briatta who was:

identified by the United States permanent subcommittee on investigations in 1963 as a member of the Chicago crime syndicate.

Imagine that.