Tag: Daley
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Clout Boosts Ex-Police Chief $30k per Year
The Machine taking care of its own: At first blush, a pension bill adopted by the General Assembly in 2007 seemed to have a laudable goal: extending retirement benefits to local police force employees’ widows after they remarried. But buried within the legislation was something considerably less altruistic: a provision that enabled a member of…
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$3.6M Settlement in Alleged Police Misconduct Case
A key City Council committee Monday signed off on a $3.6 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by a man who spent nearly 10 years in prison for an attack on a woman who later said she made a mistake when she identified him as her assailant. Robert Wilson had sought $9.9 million, a figure…