Ethics board tells Cook County assessor to fire relatives
Associated Press
7:04 AM CDT, June 26, 2012
The Cook County ethics board has ordered the county's assessor to fire two of the three relatives who work in the government tax office.
Joe Berrios was elected in 2010 to run the office. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the ethics board determined Berrios violated his fiduciary duties as well as a prohibition on hiring relatives laid out in the county's ethics ordinance.
The Sun-Times reports it obtained a “confidential” document with the ethics board's finding. The report, signed by ethics board chairwoman Roseann Oliver, concluded the hiring by Berrios of his family members as county employees undermined the public trust.
The ethics board recommends Berrios fire his son, Joseph “Joey” Berrios, from his job as a residential analyst and his sister, Carmen Berrios, as director of taxpayer services.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-ethics-board-tells-cook-county-assessor-to-fire-relatives-20120626,0,7082285.story
Editor's note: Roseanne Oliver, this Shark can give you some names of unethical employees of the Probate Court of Cook County who also "undermine the public trust". Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
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