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(Chicago Sun-Times)   Government employee fraud in Chicago? Fetch my fainting couch   (chicago.suntimes.com) divider line
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DarnoKonrad
2022-12-10 9:22:53 AM  
The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.   Look, I'm glad corruption is caught anywhere it's found, but I really don't keep track of county level politics nation wide.

And cherry picking one incidence because it tickles your wing nuts is farking stupid.
 
make me some tea [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-10 11:47:46 AM  
Two Republican politicians were recently arrested in Florida, and another money guy closely associated with Marco Rubio offed himself after being exposed for what he is, so in short there are bad people all over the place committing crimes and justice is coming for them.
 
scanman61
2022-12-10 12:09:51 PM  

DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.


Gee, I wonder why.....

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Psychopompous
2022-12-10 12:10:26 PM  
Republicans under Trump: "Free PPP money for every grifter with web access! MAGA!"

Republicans under Biden: "No money for broke college students! MAGAGA!"
 
snowshovel
2022-12-10 12:14:18 PM  

make me some tea: Two Republican politicians were recently arrested in Florida, and another money guy closely associated with Marco Rubio offed himself after being exposed for what he is, so in short there are bad people all over the place committing crimes and justice is coming for them.


That's fake news and a strawman argument when you really should concentrate on the article at hand about how leftist controlled hell holes like Chicago are the most crime ridden locations in the 2000 years of mankind
 
iheartscotch
2022-12-10 12:17:12 PM  
Queue "DEMICAT CRIMINAL CITIES".

/ BIDEN CRIME FAMILY

// this post could be serious. You never know.
 
Al Tsheimers
2022-12-10 12:19:10 PM  
PPP may have been well intentioned (well, the public politispeak made it sound that way), but with zero oversight it was begging to become a huge fraud program.
Go after the crooks. All of them. Regardless of party affiliation. If they didn't use the funds to keep their employees solvent, then they were stealing from the rest of us.
 
udhq
2022-12-10 12:22:24 PM  

DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.


Illinois is not even in the top half of states by corruption. They get overrepresented in the watchdog media because unlike most of the good-ol-boy states in the south, they actually enforce their laws.

They're one of the few states that actually follow through with imprisoning corrupt officials.
 
Psychopompous
2022-12-10 12:22:46 PM  

scanman61: DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.

Gee, I wonder why.....

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Don't forget that Conservatives, by their very nature, live in the past. Chicago elections were pretty corrupt, decades ago.
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Chicago used to have a serious Democratic patronage army under Richard J. Daley. He wielded his Clout like a club to keep Chicago Democrat and to be a kingmaker on the national stage of Party Primaries.

You can travel the world and tell people you're from Chicago, and the first reaction you are likely to get is Al Capone, accompanied by Tommy Gun motions. But for old Republican politicians, the real Chicago Boogyman was Richard J. Daly.
 
Meatsim1
2022-12-10 12:24:04 PM  
ITT: whataboutism
 
Chthonic Echoes [OhFark]
2022-12-10 12:24:17 PM  

DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.   Look, I'm glad corruption is caught anywhere it's found, but I really don't keep track of county level politics nation wide.

And cherry picking one incidence because it tickles your wing nuts is farking stupid.


If you want to see real corruption, small town and rural America is due some intense scrutiny.
 
SpockYouOut [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-10 12:34:15 PM  

Psychopompous: scanman61: DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.

Gee, I wonder why.....

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Don't forget that Conservatives, by their very nature, live in the past. Chicago elections were pretty corrupt, decades ago.
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Chicago used to have a serious Democratic patronage army under Richard J. Daley. He wielded his Clout like a club to keep Chicago Democrat and to be a kingmaker on the national stage of Party Primaries.

You can travel the world and tell people you're from Chicago, and the first reaction you are likely to get is Al Capone, accompanied by Tommy Gun motions. But for old Republican politicians, the real Chicago Boogyman was Richard J. Daly.

Boss

is still a great read.
 
TomDooley
2022-12-10 12:34:57 PM  
Exactly why the Derp State wants to outsource the majority of government operations to private corporations.  So, they can avoid transparency.  Hiding their fraud behind shell companies and trade secrecy.  Instead of being subject to public records request.  Not to mention forced arbitration.
 
blondambition [OhFark]
2022-12-10 12:39:51 PM  

scanman61: DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.

Gee, I wonder why.....

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Mmm, big hands.
 
Soup4Bonnie [TotalFark]
2022-12-10 12:40:21 PM  
hard to believe a trump program was shiat-designed and free money for those able to get it because if it was then Republicans would be screaming about the waste fraud and abuse and talkin' about how we are mortgaging our grandchildren's future and the nation's credit card limit and oh god I think I just died
 
Psychopompous
2022-12-10 12:44:45 PM  

SpockYouOut: Psychopompous: scanman61: DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.

Gee, I wonder why.....

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Don't forget that Conservatives, by their very nature, live in the past. Chicago elections were pretty corrupt, decades ago.
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Chicago used to have a serious Democratic patronage army under Richard J. Daley. He wielded his Clout like a club to keep Chicago Democrat and to be a kingmaker on the national stage of Party Primaries.

You can travel the world and tell people you're from Chicago, and the first reaction you are likely to get is Al Capone, accompanied by Tommy Gun motions. But for old Republican politicians, the real Chicago Boogyman was Richard J. Daly.

Boss is still a great read.


Agreed.
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Teddy Brosevelt
2022-12-10 12:45:07 PM  
HUNTER BIDENS LAPTOP
 
Any Pie Left
2022-12-10 12:45:53 PM  
In the heart of the covid crisis, my view was to be liberal in giving out the financial aid as much as possible, to give the economy the stimulus it needed as well as to help everyday people just make it and not go bankrupt. I expected some fraud but felt that it was more important to get the money out and working, and that the crooks could get hunted down later.

I still think that was the right choice, but now the thieves need very public and very painful consequences.
 
I hereby demand that I be given a Fark account [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2022-12-10 1:00:21 PM  
Do you know what real corruption is?

It's when you don't prosecute dirty officials.
 
benelane [BareFark]
2022-12-10 1:15:53 PM  
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someonelse
2022-12-10 1:26:52 PM  
Chicago is the CRT of Hunter Biden laptops.
 
Al Tsheimers
2022-12-10 1:37:07 PM  

udhq: DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.

Illinois is not even in the top half of states by corruption. They get overrepresented in the watchdog media because unlike most of the good-ol-boy states in the south, they actually enforce their laws.

They're one of the few states that actually follow through with imprisoning corrupt officials.


I have a joke with one of my friends that Illinois has a little known law that says that every other Governor has to go to prison.
 
shinji3i
2022-12-10 1:53:08 PM  

DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.   Look, I'm glad corruption is caught anywhere it's found, but I really don't keep track of county level politics nation wide.

And cherry picking one incidence because it tickles your wing nuts is farking stupid.


I think it's reasonable for the "Chicago Sun-Times" to do an article about corruption in Chicago.
 
Dr. Bison
2022-12-10 3:16:09 PM  
I'm from Chicago. Ruthlessly participating in then ruthlessly rooting out corruption is my cultural heritage.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2022-12-10 3:25:06 PM  

DarnoKonrad: The right's obsession with the Chicago is so damn ridiculous.   Look, I'm glad corruption is caught anywhere it's found, but I really don't keep track of county level politics nation wide.

And cherry picking one incidence because it tickles your wing nuts is farking stupid.


Gurl, Chicago residents are obsessed with Chicago corruption as well. The only people who tend to shy away from acknowledging it are Democratic politicians.
 
bigdog1960
2022-12-10 3:27:57 PM  
Yes there is corruption but Illinois sends people to jail. Yet see texas ag and governor are still free.
 
misanthropicsob [OhFark]
2022-12-10 3:32:46 PM  

bigdog1960: Yes there is corruption but Illinois sends people to jail. Yet see texas ag and governor are still free.


You want to talk about Texas? We can do that. And, Whatabout New York corruption?
 
udhq
2022-12-10 3:57:16 PM  
Gurl, Chicago residents are obsessed with Chicago corruption as well. The only people who tend to shy away from acknowledging it are Democratic politicians.

This is what happens to your brain when you watch 9 hours of Fox News a day.
 
chicagogasman [TotalFark]
2022-12-10 7:34:35 PM  
FOr over ten years I owned cab garages and gas stations in Chicago and other cities in In and Mi. I saw a lot of crap and dealt with some corrupt inspectors but I never spoke to an Alderman unless my lawyer was with me.  No matter who it was. My family has done business there since my Granpa Started Checker Cab and Yellow
 
cefm
2022-12-10 10:25:37 PM  
It seems this is the opposite of government corruption. Individual employees were jumping on the PPP fraud wagon, and what's happening now is the government leadership is actually taking steps to investigate it.
 
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