Bad week for John Cullerton

April 25, 2010 by CookReformer
Filed under: Spending

Last week, Cook County’s own Illinois Senate President John Cullerton came under fire for misuse of a taxpayer-funded vehicle.

Now, this:

In a 58-0 vote that took just 94 seconds, Senate President John Cullerton and his colleagues passed a measure that would protect a long-standing bank practice of charging businesses an extra five days in interest each year.

Cullerton, who gave permission for a top lieutenant to introduce the bill, is a Chicago partner in a large law firm with banking clients that would benefit from the proposal. In fact, his firm had just weeks before finalized a class-action settlement on the issue for a bank that agreed to pay more than $4 million to its borrowers.

A tough week for Senator Cullerton.