The Chicago corruption case you barely heard of :6 of 15 convicted city inspectors were on 'clout list'

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

It began with the arrest of a former member of the Jesse White Tumbling Team and turned into one of the most significant Chicago corruption investigations of Mayor Daley's administration.

The federal investigation dubbed "Operation Crooked Code" so far has led to the convictions of 21 people -- including 15 city building and zoning inspectors. The 21st conviction came just last Thursday, when a federal jury convicted developer Dumitru Curescu of bribery.

Despite those successful cases, Crooked Code hasn't been as high-profile as investigations of the city's Hired Truck Program or city hiring or the Operation Silver Shovel probe, largely because it involves corruption on a smaller scale -- rank-and-file city workers taking bribes to overlook building-code violations on neighborhood housing projects.

Great moments in government.