Friday, September 26, 2008

Cook County to start paying awards

A story from the Tribune about how Cook County will have to pay 4 people more than $100,000 for politically motivated hiring and promotions:
Cook County will pay more than $100,000 each to four victims of illegal political patronage as part of 108 awards announced Thursday by a court-appointed hiring monitor.

Julia Nowicki awarded about $3 million to people who lost out on jobs and promotions because of politics between August 2004 and February 2007.

The awards, ranging from $250 to $323,000, will be paid by the county in the next 60 days.

One of the biggest—$130,000—went to Margaret Bageanis, an administrative assistant in the county's Animal Control Department since 1988.

Bageanis said that for years she did the job of her boss, the department's business manager, because it was held by a series of political appointees who weren't doing the work. Bageanis, 62, later went on disability leave for stress.
Some will see this as a Chicago tradition costing taxpayer's money.

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