Posted on 10/10/2015 2:52:29 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"......The indictment alleges that Byrd-Bennett expected to receive kickbacks worth ten per cent of the value of the no-bid contracts, or about $2.3million.
It's unclear how much money was set aside for her, though the indictment says two trust accounts tied to her relatives - identified only as Relatives A and B - were set up to help hide the money.
The relatives were revealed by sources as Byrd-Bennett's twin grandsons, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The money was set aside for college funds, emails included in the indictment suggest.
The company's owners, Gary Soloman and Thomas Vranas, are accused of offering her money - including plotting to place $127,000 into each of the two accounts set up under her relatives' names - along with sporting event tickets and other kickbacks in exchange for contracts.
Fardon said that Byrd-Bennett never pocketed any of the money and that she and Solomon had discussed destroying their emails. 'I think those emails reflect greed,' he told the Chicago Sun-Times. 'I think they reflect a public official who compromised her integrity and the integrity of her professional responsibility by looking to line her own pocket.'
Soloman's attorney released a statement saying his client had cooperated in the investigation and stood behind his company’s training and services. He added that Solomon had acknowledged ‘certain errors’ in judgment, but that he was disappointed he had been charged.
Vranas and his attorney didn't immediately return calls for comment.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who hand-picked Byrd-Bennett to be his schools chief in 2012, said he was ‘saddened and disappointed’ to learn of her alleged criminal activity.
In a statement Thursday, Emanuel said students, parents, teachers and principals in the nation's third-largest school district ‘deserve better’.
......At the time, Emanuel said he was proud of his choice of Byrd-Bennett.....
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And here we are barely able to make ends meet and the POS liberals continue to pad their fortunes by stealing taxpayer $$$. Nothing to see; move along.
Q: Do we even need to look?
A: No.
I bet Rahm’s POed because he didn’t get a cut.
He got a cut. It's the Chicago Way. This woman will be stand up. She "kept it all, there was no one else involved." She'll go to jail, and never say a word. The trade for her silence is that she will come home to a livelihood. Her family won't miss any meals, won't have to move.
If she decides to talk, her twin grandkids will 'get mugged'. If she continues, they will vanish...
The worst part: This goes all the way to the White House. He would have never been a state senator if he wasn't bent. How does a crook trust someone who's honest?
Black lives matter
I just can’t see how it’s possible a politician from Chicago could be crooked.
OMG...she’s BLACK!!
That’s about 3.8 million in US dollars.
The headline says 2.3 million in pounds, then the article says 2.3 in dollars, but if pounds, that 3.8 million.
Corruption in Chicago? Who would have thought it?
Well at least the American press is on it ... oh wait, that’s the UK Daily Mail
Isn’t this the same woman the dems wanted to run for mayor against Rham?
No, that was the president of the Chicago teachers’ union.
Thanks
Rahm picked her after she had done...well, not much...for the Cleveland schools.
Large Democrat cities are corrupt... if Democrats had their way the whole country would be like Chicago, Detroit and Baltimore.
“Rahm picked her after she had done...well, not much...for the Cleveland schools.”
Public School Superintendents, the country’s highest-paid migrant workers!
They Eff up one place, are terminated with a generous “contract buyout” by the district involved, then they are hired by yet another school district. Rinse and repeat. The school boards involved should be jailed for their behavior!
Wonder how much she got in cash also....Knew someone in Chicago education community who said they kept a drawerful of cash for payoffs...in 1980s
Oh, I forgot, this is Chicago, where homeboy Obama comes from. But not a word from him on the massive gun violence coming out of that city. Doesn't fit the narrative the Marxist Left wants to project. And Emanuel, even though he is mayor, is not being held accountable for this murderous rampage in his city week after week after week. Why? Because he's a democRAT and they aren't held responsible for anything that happens on their watch!
Isn’t this the same woman the dems wanted to run for mayor against Rham?
Same tribe, different squaw
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