Daley kin lawyer up - CONTRACT PROBE | Son, nephew hire criminal defense attorney
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Chicago Sun Times ^ | 3-27-09 | Tim Novak, Fran Spielman
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Mayor Daley’s son and nephew have hired a criminal defense attorney to represent them in the ongoing investigation of their investment in a sewer-cleaning company that won millions of dollars in no-bid contract extensions from City Hall.
Charles Sklarsky, a former federal prosecutor now with the law firm of Jenner & Block, confirmed Thursday he is representing Patrick Daley and his cousin Robert Vanecko.
Sklarsky wouldn’t discuss the investigation, which the city’s inspector general and federal authorities began in December 2007.
That was days after the Chicago Sun-Times disclosed that Daley’s son and nephew had held a hidden ownership stake in Municipal Sewer Services and that the company saw its city business — inspecting and cleaning sewers — soar during the time they were owners.
Patrick Daley and Vanecko invested $65,000 in the company in 2003, but Municipal didn’t disclose their interest on documents it filed with City Hall. At the time, a city ordinance required such disclosure by city contractors. Daley and Vanecko have said they cashed out in late 2004. That was as the Hired Truck scandal prompted reforms at City Hall.
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Pension funds may not cooperate on subpoena
Trustees for at least two city pension funds are considering stonewalling Chicago’s inspector general over a subpoena for records involving their investments with a company co-owned by one of Mayor Daley’s nephews.
The funds invested millions of dollars in DV Urban Realty Partners, founded by Daley nephew Robert Vanecko and Allison Davis, a mayoral supporter whose law firm once employed Barack Obama.
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Tim Novak wrote April 23, 2007, in the Chicago Sun-Times that in 1993 Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) started working at Allison S. Davis’s “small Chicago law firm”. In 1998, Davis left the firm to invest in indicted political fixer Antoin ‘Tony’ Rezko’s “final government-subsidized, low-income housing project” and the deal was “handled by Davis’ former law firm.”