Click on
this link to an amazing Chicago Tribune report. You'll want to watch the video and read the article:
At least eight Chicago labor leaders who are eligible for inflated city pensions also stand to receive union pensions covering the same work period, thanks to a charitable interpretation of state law by officials representing two city pension funds, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.
By double and even triple dipping on pensions, these union officials stand to reap millions more in retirement while thousands of rank-and-file union members face hard times and city pension funds stagger toward insolvency.
Union pension benefits are not public record, but the Tribune and WGN-TV obtained information confirming that at least seven union officials are accruing benefits in multiple pensions and another retired official already is receiving money from two pensions.
There's more:
"Can you name any place in the world where someone can get two pensions for the same job?" said state Rep. Tom Cross, a Republican from Oswego who has been pushing for statewide pension reform. "Even by our standards here in Illinois, it's beyond belief. It's insane."
Not insane when friends and relatives of the late
Alderman Fred Roti are running things. Alderman Fred Roti was identified by the Justice Department as a
"high ranking made member" of the Chicago Mob. For a look at Alderman Roti's nephew (Bruno Caruso), mentioned in the video report, click on
this. Just a reminder, Barack Obama's jobs bill is aimed at "helping" Chicago help these unions thugs.
