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CHICAGO GOVT'S MAFIA TERROR BOMBING TIES

Just how corrupt is Chicago? Former Alderman Dick Simpson who's now a professor at University of Illinois-Chicago has some interesting numbers on Chicago and Illinois:
Since 1973, the U.S. attorney has indicted 30 aldermen and convicted 27 (one died before trial and two stand trial this spring). The Public Corruption and Accountability Project at UIC calculates that there have been more than 1,000 local and state governmental officials convicted since the 1970s. The "corruption tax," or cost of government corruption for Cook County residents, is now more than $300 million a year, greater than the local government tax increases this year.

Things are so throughly corrupt in Chicago that U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald had to call for more help.As The Chicago Sun-Times reported:
From an exhaustive Hired Truck investigation to a probe into patronage hiring at City Hall, there's so much corruption to investigate in the Chicago area, the FBI is adding manpower.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert Grant told the Sun-Times he has reorganized the bureau to add a third public corruption squad by Sept. 6, giving Chicago the largest public corruption unit in the country.

Though Grant said Mayor Daley is not a target in the growing probe, federal investigators took their investigation up another notch Friday when they questioned the mayor for the first time about alleged City Hall corruption.

In addition to Hired Truck, the mayor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs is under fire, with prosecutors alleging job interviews were rigged in many cases so only those backed by clout landed jobs.

Corruption costs money and starting April 1 Chicago will have the highest retail sales tax on general merchandise at 9.25% of any large city in the United States.The Cook County Democratic machine doesn't care much about poor people paying high taxes.Obama supported Cook County Board President Todd Stroger,the man who's trying to push the sales tax up to 11%.

John Daley.Daley is the brother of Chicago's current Mayor.John Daley is the Mayor's key guy on the Cook County Board.John Daley is also the Democratic Ward Committeman of the 11th Ward which has an unusual amount of city workers living there.John is also the son of the other Mayor Daley (1955-1976).Not only is John from a politically connected family,he married into another powerful family.Here's a quote from The Chicago Tribune article on April 24,1975 titled DALEY'S SON TO WED HOOD'S DAUGHTER:

"John Daley,son of Mayor Daley,is engaged to marry the daughter of a long-time crime syndicate gambling boss.John plans to wed Mary Lou Briatta June 26 in Our Lady of Pompeii Church,1224 W.Lexington St.The couple became acquainted during summer vacations in Grand Beach,Mich.,where the families of both have summer homes.Mary Lou is the daughter of Louis Briatta,a Loop gambling boss and brother-in-law of John D'Arco,1st Ward Democratic committeman.Briatta was identified by the United States permanent subcommittee on investigations in 1963 as a member of the Chicago crime syndicate."

A high-ranking official in Gov. Blagojevich's office spent nearly two years in a federal prison for refusing to aid a government terrorism probe into a series of bombings in Chicago and New York City.

Steven Guerra, Blagojevich's $120,000-a-year deputy chief of staff for community services, was identified by federal prosecutors as a member of the Puerto Rican separatist group, FALN, which was behind a wave of violence and killings in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Before al-Qaida and Timothy McVeigh, the nation's most feared terrorism group was FALN, an organization that sought Puerto Rican independence through a wave of terror more than a quarter century ago.

More than 130 bombings in New York, Illinois and Puerto Rico were attributed to the group, including at least 28 here. Five people were killed, and 84 were injured, including four police officers.

Between 1975 and 1979, FALN took credit for or was suspected in bomb attacks at the Merchandise Mart, the Chicago Police Department headquarters, Woodfield Shopping Center and a former Marshall Field's department store, among others.

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