05 May 2014 (11:27 UTC-07 Tango)/05 Rajab 1435/13 Ordibehesht 1393/07 Ji-Si 4712
“It only reinforces the notion that state government is at best inept and at worst corrupt.“-Matt Dietrich, Reboot Illinois
“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
The Obama regime has launched criminal investigations of top ‘elected’ officials in Illinois. Apparently they stole $55-million in U.S. taxpayer grants.
That money was supposed to be used in a covert gun confiscation program known as Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, but instead disappeared into the pockets of politicians and their friends.
On 02 May 2014, the U.S. attorney in Chicago announced an investigation into Neighborhood Recovery Initiative, after a state level audit revealed problems with documentation of how the money was spent.
Govna Pat Quinn is quickly backpedaling to make it look like he is saving the day, when he is actually one of many implicated: “I saw problems in the Neighborhood Recovery Program to fight violence, and we shut it down, and abolished the agency which was overseeing it.”
One of Quinn’s cohorts says don’t be fooled by the Govna’s claims: “This doesn’t surprise me. Whenever something egregious happens with taxpayer money, the next thing that happens is, these guys come up with something and say, ‘Look! I fixed what I just did!'”-Dwight Kay, co-wrote anti-corruption bill (known as Grant Accountability and Transparency Act) with Quinn
This train wreck of Chicagoland corruption runs all the way back to 2005, even before the 2009 Blagojevich scandal.
In 2011, public officials Margaret Davis and Tonja Cook were indicted for stealing half a million dollars from 15 federal grants starting in 2005. They spent the money on “personal expenses”, as well as using the taxpayer grants as a money laundering op.
Then there’s former Country Club Hills cop boss Regina Evans and her husband Ronald Evans, who were indicted in 2012 for stealing $1.25-million in grant money back in 2009. Turns out the non-profit companies getting the grant money were actually owned by those two exemplary pro-police citizens.
And just this year former Public Health official Quinshaunta R. Golden pled guilty to stealing $13-million!
“…..If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.“-Carl Sagan, astronomer, agnostic, anarchist
“Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security……..That’s what makes America different. That’s what makes us exceptional.”-Barack Obama, 10 September 2013, calls Chicagoland his homie town
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