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Good Government/Reform Wed May 19 2010
Chicago IG: Hundreds of Millions in Unreported City Payments
Well, you won't find these in City Payments' database. The Chicago News Cooperative's Dan Mihalopolous brings us the story of $769m in undisclosed payments by the City of Chicago to vendors. That's just in one year. Yeah.
Dan is a real journalist, so I'm going to add some Mad Libs-y color commentary to this quote:
Mayor Richard M. Daley's hilarious assertions that he has run a transparent administration suffered a fresh blow following the release of a new one-freaking-year audit report showing that the city neglected to disclose nearly $769 goddamn million in payments made with taxpayer money.
The new unfreakingbelievable report from Inspector General Joseph Ferguson states that "direct voucher" payments, in which the city makes payments for goods and services that it obtains outside the normal quotecompetitiveunquote bidding process, weren't made public even after the city vowed to open up all contracts and payments made to companies for goods and services to public view through the Department of Procurement Services at www.cityofchicago.org.
You can catch the IG's full report below the fold.
Orion / May 21, 2010 3:04 PM
Looks like joe ferguson is as much of a media whore as his predecessor David Hoffman was.
This is a story about nothing.