Inspector general: City’s minority business program still ‘beset by fraud and abuse’

Inspector general: City’s minority business program still ‘beset by fraud and abuse’


BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter fspielman@suntimes.com June 9, 2011 1:34PM

Editorial: Fix minority set-aside program Updated: June 10, 2011 3:28PM

Chicago’s scandal-scarred minority business program remains “dysfunctional” and “beset by fraud and abuse” because former Mayor Richard M. Daley lacked a commitment to clean it up, the city’s inspector general concluded Thursday.

One year after concluding that blacks, Hispanics, women and Asians were deprived of at least $19 million worth of construction contracts in 2008 alone because of “widespread” fraud, abuse and mismanagement, Inspector General Joe Ferguson determined that precious little has changed.

“The lack of an overall commitment to confronting the program’s deficiencies has left it beset by fraud and abuse and unable to achieve its objectives,” Ferguson wrote

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Editor's note: General Joe,  If you want to find fraud, abuse, deficiencies and dysfunction sit in the Probate Court of Cook County courtrooms on the 18th floor of the Daley Center for a couple of days. Your ProbateShark will treat you to a free breakfast at Denny's if you can't find some crooks to indict.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com