Daley son’s business partner indicted

Source: Chicago Sun-Times

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 Thursday.

Read more: http://www.suntimes.com/3193061-417/company-brunt-sewer-mayor-son.html

Why did the writer feel the need to say that? Just seemed weird.

requiring some portion of government contracts go to minority- and/or women-owned businesses.

I think the point here probably -- and I say this without having read the article -- is that someone fraudulently posed as a minority-owned business in order to funnel the contract to Daley's son's partner or whatever the hell the relationship is.


TG, TT

What % of businesses are operating fraudulently?


A few frauds making headlines in ANY sphere does not negate all the honest people in the same sphere.

What's really egregious is that the party in power in Chicago touts the minority set asides and the "city bosses" end up participating in the scams.

practice, common or not.

As an honorary (but proud) member of the National Association of Women in Construction, I assure you, plenty of minority and women owned businesses exist and perform their own work.


"What's really egregious is that the party in power in Chicago touts the minority set asides and the "city bosses" end up participating in the scams."


Party in power = Dems. You are generalizing from one incident to condemn the Dem Party AND set asides?

Btw, before minority and female set asides, minorities and women owned businesses got few to NONE of government contracts. That was pretty fucking "egregious," too, not to mention downright unconstitutional. Maybe that is why the "party in power in Chicago" "touts" set asides.

sort of a common practice in chicago bids. this scam is also used in women owned business

were not charged with any wrongdoing.

They knew nothing! Nothing!

Thanks for the heads up.

Why? Because corporatists on the right and left are joining forces to fight populists on the right and left.

During the time the mayor’s son and nephew had a stake in MSS, it was given more than $4 million in no-bid contract extensions from City Hall. The mayor later said he never knew his son and nephew had a stake in the company until the Sun-Times uncovered it.

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Between 2000 and 2006, Brunt subcontracted all of the city sewer-inspection work south of 63rd Street to Kenny or MSS.

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“Patrick Daley, who owned about 2 percent of this company, walked away from it seven years ago with no knowledge of any wrongdoing,’’ said the mayor’s press secretary, Jacquelyn Heard. “I think it’s a stretch to call him a business partner’’ of Duffy.



Oh, well, if he says so.