Mayor Daley son’s business partner indicted

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

City Hall hired a minority-owned trucking company to clean and inspect sewers south of 63rd Street, but the owner secretly farmed out the multimillion-dollar job to a company owned in part by Mayor Daley’s son and nephew, according to a federal indictment returned Thursday.

The mayor’s son, Patrick R. Daley, and nephew, Robert G. Vanecko, were not charged with any wrongdoing.

Their former business partner Anthony Duffy was charged with three counts of mail fraud for allegedly participating in the latest minority-contracting scheme to hit City Hall, in which the city sets aside contracts for companies owned and operated by women and minorities that are nothing more than pass-throughs for white-owned businesses that actually do the work — and end up getting the bulk of the city money.

Imagine that.