Corruption in City of Chicago Hiring Process

February 28, 2010 by CookReformer
Filed under: Corruption

Alan W. Reiner, Special Agent for the FBI has filed an affidavit made in support of a criminal complaint charging Patrick Slattery together with City of Chicago officials, devised, intended to devise and participated in a scheme and artifice to defraud the Chicago of money, property, and the intangible right to the honest services of defendant Slattery and the aforementioned City employees.

In particular, Slattery participated in a scheme in which he and his co-schemers routinely manipulated the interview and selection process for certain Department of Streets & Sanitation employment positions by conducting sham interviews, falsely inflating interview scores,and otherwise guaranteeing that certain pre-selected candidates who were favored by top City officials would win the employment positions, often to the exclusion of equally or more qualified candidates. This pre-selected status was granted by City officials at times because of the prospective employee’s: association with particular political organizations or unions; contributions of labor to certain political organizations or candidates; or other influence. This fraudulent interview process, as set forth more fully below, violates federal and state laws as well as City ordinances.

You can read the complete affadavit at Newsalert.