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...RICHARD DALEY, Chicago Mayor, after the City Council approved a ban on the sale of foie gras on the grounds that production of fatty duck and goose livers requires inhumane treatment of the birds...
...Chicago, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, also the special counsel in the CIA-leak investigation, is presiding over an ongoing contracting and patronage probe that has already led to 30 indictments, including those of two lieutenants of Mayor Richard Daley. A federal official tells TIME that the bureau is looking closely at possible Daley links to the scandal, although an FBI spokesman stresses that Daley himself is not implicated to date. At the same time, former Illinois Governor George Ryan stands trial on various corruption charges (which he denies) that arose initially out of a probe into whether low-number license...
...allegations of patronage--which include rigging of applicant test scores, falsifying records and recommending the hiring of, among other apparently unqualified people, one dead man and one drunk--are just the latest serious charges of wrongdoing leveled at Daley's administration. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald (who is also investigating the leak of CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity) has helped convict more than 20 city employees of taking bribes in exchange for contracts in the city's Hired Truck program, which doles out transportation work to private companies. When announcing the recent indictments, Fitzgerald, who has also charged that...
...Daley dismisses the scandals as a few isolated incidents rather than evidence of any "systemic" problem. But even many supporters find it hard to believe that Daley, who practically has patronage in his blood and is known as a hands-on boss, had no idea what was going on. "I like him. It's just that he has this blind spot when it comes to corruption. I don't think he ever realizes the seriousness of it," says Joe Moore, a Far North Side alderman who was elected to the city council two years after Daley took office. In recent...
Still, for every voter incensed by the apparent excesses of machine politics, there are probably more backers ready to rally around Daley. "I have never seen the city look better, run better," says Jay Schaller, whose family owns a bar in the working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport, a longtime Daley power base. "And if it takes a little patronage to get it done, so be it." That is a sentiment that Daley is banking on. "People used to say, 'You're the mayor's son--you don't have to do anything,'" Daley says. "I've worked very hard...