(Chicago Sun Times) — Cook County Board President Todd Stroger described his single term in office as a battle — with his political foes and the news media — and that he leaves feeling “some bitterness.” In what is expected to be one of his final official acts in office, Stroger presided over the county’s […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — She is seeking the help of the very people she may fire. But Cook County Board President-elect Toni Preckwinkle said she needs the help of outgoing board President Todd Stroger’s administration as she prepares to take the reins of the $3 billion government next month. So she emailed and faxed letters […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Two Cook County commissioners are pushing lame-duck Cook County Board President Todd Stroger to fight the unemployment claim filed by Carla Oglesby, his former deputy chief of staff. Stroger fired her last month after she was charged with stealing $300,000 from the county by rewarding her pals and her own firm […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — The Daley administration fired him earlier this year amid allegations he dispatched city water crews to do repair work on private property, but Tommie Talley has returned to government work — this time for lame-duck Cook County Board President Todd Stroger. On Tuesday, Talley began working as a $90,000 a year administrative […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — The case against Carla Oglesby — the now-former deputy chief of staff to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger — is spelled out in a 10-page criminal complaint that refers anonymously to a cast of characters prosecutors say were involved, many of them unwittingly. Though no one else is identified by […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — A former top aide to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger learned Wednesday she would spend a third night behind bars. The family of Carla Oglesby can’t come up with the money to bail her out, her attorney Anthony Schumann said on Wednesday. “We’re still working on it,” Schumann said by […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Her tenure as a top official in Cook County Board President Todd Stroger’s office was little more than seven months, but almost from the start Carla Oglesby was allegedly lining her pocket — and that of her pals. From mid-February, when she was hired to be Stroger’s $120,000-a-year deputy chief of […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Lame duck Cook County Board President Todd Stroger’s administration rang up a $13,000 tab for new furniture in recent months, according to county documents obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. All of the furniture — including four chairs that cost $736 apiece — were delivered to the offices of Stroger’s childhood friend […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — A week ago, Cook County Board President Todd Stroger’s administration was poised to hire three politically connected job candidates, including the finance chair of Stroger’s election campaign and the wife of a Chicago alderman. But when county hiring watchdog Mary Robinson started asking questions about the job candidates, the Stroger administration […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — On the same day Cook County Board President Todd Stroger withdrew the controversial appointment of his former campaign manager to a county zoning seat, a court-appointed hiring monitor issued a scathing report accusing the Stroger administration of rewarding political loyalists with county work. In fact, the revolving door of employees has […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — The one-time campaign manager for Cook County Board President Todd Stroger is in line for a $38,000-a-year seat on the county’s Zoning Board of Appeals. Stroger wants to appoint local lawyer and government lobbyist Vincent Williams to the job. Cook County commissioners typically sign off on the president’s nominations, but several […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — The Cook County state’s attorney’s office is investigating about a dozen no-bid contracts approved by top aides to Cook County Board President Todd Stroger, including one handed to a private company owned by his embattled deputy chief of staff, Carla Oglesby, law enforcement sources have confirmed. Two county employees and a political […]