Former Chicago Streets and Sanitation Commissioner Al Sanchez is on trial for promoting politically motivated hiring practices to fill the Streets Department’s payrolls. Witnesses in the ongoing hiring fraud trial testified that the city’s electric bureau did not even consider applicants without political connections. The electric bureau’s personnel liaison, Hugh Donlan, was very clear about where interviewers should file ratings forms for non-political applicants. “I’d put it in the garbage,” he said. Prosecutors are charging Sanchez with mail fraud and funneling jobs to workers in the city’s Hispanic Democratic Organization. (Chicago Tribune)
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