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Showing posts with label bribes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bribes. Show all posts
Monday, July 8, 2019

Chicago out-conned by Rio de Janeiro?

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For all the rhetoric we hear about how venal and corrupt the inherent character of Chicago truly is, I couldn’t help but wonder if the real ...
Thursday, December 7, 2017

Interested in truth? Or only politicking?

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It will be interesting to see how (if at all) the Supreme Court of the United States reacts to a brief by several current and former local p...
Thursday, March 16, 2017

Was I bought off by the White Sox?

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Perhaps I have a disclosure to make – I attended Chicago White Sox Opening Days of 1998 and 1999 courtesy of the ball club. This particul...
Saturday, March 1, 2014

Ho, ho and ho? Feds say Christmas party cash was really a bribe!

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Did grandma ever combine this ... There have been some fairly creative attempts to disguise the intent of a cash payment that federal pr...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Do we have our priorities confused?

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It is on days like Monday that I wonder the point of reporting the news, since the priorities for what is significant can become so convolu...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Gone, before he could even become a part of the political scenery?

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I have to confess, as much as I like to believe I am more politically aware than the average person, I didn’t have a clue who Derrick Smith...
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Gregory Tejeda
Chicago's far South Side, Illinois, United States
I am a Chicago-area freelance writer who has reported on various political and legal beats. I wrote "Hispanic" issues columns for United Press International, observed up close the Statehouse Scene in Springfield, Ill., the Cook County Board in Chicago and municipal government in places like Calumet City, Ill., and Gary, Ind. For a time, I also wrote about agriculture. Trust me when I say the symbolic stench of partisan politics (particularly when directed against people due to their ethnicity) is far nastier than any odor that could come from a farm animal.
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