Chandler and Thompson - community and business

One way to get information from the government is to file a Freedom of Information Act request.  This is called a FOIA request to those not familar with the term.  Basically, it is the only way that citizens, community groups or business concerns can get anything from government.

We filed a FOIA request with Streets and Sanitation that was submitted to Kathleen Hennessy.  You will later find out about her and her connections to corruption, including lying and falisfying documents that appeared in the 7th District Federal Court.  Needless to say, Streets and Sanitation wanted to bury everything in their perverbial garbage dump.  The FOIA was refused as were several other FOIA requests that Hennessy saw pass over her desk on their path to the Streets and Sanitation dump.

The Inspector General

Finding such a large sum of money draws attention from everyone - except the major newspapers.  Everyone in Streets and Sanitation heard about it and shortly after the discovery the laborers were moved to another location.  The first thought was the money belonged to drug dealers but no conclusive proof was ever found.

One of the roles of the Inspector General is to investigation such activity, or any activity, that deals with city employees.  Sorry, but Alderman did exempt themselves from any investigation whatsoever in relation to the Inspector General's office.

Up to this point, the Inspector General had received many complaints from city employees, include Wayne Strnad.  When you want to know how something is going, such as some follow-up on something reported, the IG is coy in providing any information whatsoever.  The general response runs along the lines - it is being investigated and we cannot talk about the investigation.

This is the same line of nonsense that the Cook County States Attorney used when we reported the voter fraud that occured with Isaac "Ike" Carothers in the 29th Ward of Chicago.