Back in the High Life Again
After an unsuccessful AG run-and jail time-she's still got it. The Sun Times's Carol Marin writes that former Chicago city treasurer Miriam Santos may get the "last laugh"after all.
On Thursday in the courtroom of U.S. District Court Judge Joan Gottschall, an improbable but not impossible motion is set to be heard. If it is ultimately successful, Santos, who went from being the first Hispanic elected to citywide office in 1991 to being the first citywide elected Hispanic to go off to prison, may find herself more than $1 million richer. For what? For blowing the whistle on corruption, that's what.
As for Miriam Santos, even if she never sees a dime of whistleblower reward money, she is in a far better place today than many of her former colleagues who now have the feds breathing down their necks. People like Victor Reyes, her nemesis and boss of the Hispanic Democratic Organization.
Santos had receded from the limelight after her 1998 loss for the AG's office and an indictment just one year later. After several months singing the prison blues, Santos's sentence was overturned and she pled guilty to lesser charges. In 2001, proving that misfortune comes in threes, Santos's law license was briefly suspended. According to Sneed, she is now back in private practice, and, apparently, back in the high life again.
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X Posted? Is that what the kids are saying nowadays? I hope you enjoy the extra second of your life by not having to type "Cross"!
I will say officially, finally, what comes aroud goes around, even in chicago. Victor Crown has found a crack in the door of chicago city politics. Victor found the door that Daley and his administration has kept closed. It is called truth. All writers know trying to get any information out of the Daley's boys short of the F.B.I. is nearly impossible. Also Victor Crown will open the door of the Chicago Inspector General's "Residency" cases. He has proved fraud same as Hired Truck Scandal. "Investigators" sitting around investigating nothing. Timesheet fraud. Victor's filing today has over 800 pages. Victor is a real Chicago Hero. Patrick McDonough.
Would be nice to see the papers take this thought more seriously,
Maddening though he can be, he has paid careful attention to how government works, something we all could do more of.
The Sunday papers ain't what they used to be.
Victor bites and hangs on like a pit bull.
Santos got a raw deal from Daley & Co., it's great fun to watch him squirm day-by-day now.
Miriam deserves every penny.
Time to get out, Noonan. Like yesterday, last week, last year-every day you stay with Reyes you are taking a big risk...
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