Rahm Takes on Burke: Emanuel bans Windy City Electric from doing city business

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Windy City Electric Co., its owners and their politically connected husbands have been permanently banned from working for City Hall for orchestrating a fraud scheme that landed them millions of dollars in city contracts set aside for companies owned by women and minorities, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration has announced.

One of the people Emanuel banned is Anthony P. McMahon, a top precinct captain for Chicago’s most powerful alderman, Edward M. Burke (14th). Also banned was his brother, former city electrician John K. McMahon, and their wives.

The Emanuel administration is still investigating Daniel Hebert — the husband of one of Burke’s top aides, Michelle Murphy — who helped the McMahon brothers run Ace Mechanical Co., a plumbing company that also got city work and inexplicably paid more than $1 million to Windy City, according to a 16-page decision the city sent the McMahons last week. On its minority-owned business certification papers, Ace was supposed to be owned and run by a Hispanic man, but the city says Anthony and John McMahon handled its daily operations.

No word yet on why the U.S. Attorney hasn't gone after this fraud.