president todd stroger's cousin and cook county chief financial officer donna dunnings gave the fcuk you pay me salute to tom dart's undersheriff zelda whittler current cook county sheriff budget director and her former employee alexis herrera during a budget amendment meeting in the hallway in the county board room last thursday.
Dunnings said "the incident got overblown because she's related to stroger it was a joke, i was teasing with a former employee. We tease all the time. If someone thinks it's more than that, f--- 'em. As much as people try to make me an ogre, I'm not that at all, i just want best for administration and county of Cook. They can say what they want about me. i bust my ass in this job. ... write what you want. i don't care anymore."
and this is why cook county pay some of the highest taxes in the nation!
The undercover operation began in early 2007 where an undercover agent posed as an employee of the Skybox a Harvey strip club the alleged smoking gun of police corruption where he met two sheriff's officers Ahyetoro "Red" Taylor and Raphael Manuel, who sold drugs to agents later providing security for deals in the parking lot at Target, 17601 South Halsted St., Homewood on Aug. 1, 2007, for a set-up deal at the Holiday Inn at 183rd Street and Harlem Avenue, Tinley Park, on Aug. 22, 2007 and again in a deal for 25 kilos of cocaine at Cracker Barrel restaurant at 18531 North Creek Drive, Tinley Park, Oct. 24, 2007. Manuel reassured undercover agents, the county motto was "They pay us for what we might have to do, not for what we do."
In May, a plane landed at DuPage Airport, where jail guards Taylor and Manuel boarded and allegedly began counting what they thought were 80 kilos of cocaine stashed in four duffel bags. Also caught up in the sting was Harvey officer and Metra conductor Archie Stallworth, who is accused of accompanying an undercover agent to DuPage Airport on Aug. 11 and accepting $1,000 after handling three duffel bags purportedly containing 30 kilos of cocaine. Harvey officer Dwayne Williams is accused of taking $400 to provide muscle during a purported $100,000 poker game staged by FBI agents. Fellow officer Antoine D. Dudley allegedly got $400 in protection money.
According to the common affidavit, the undercover agent paid a total of $44,000 to 16of the defendants, not including an additional $1,000 to Archie Stallworth. The largest shares allegedly were paid to Taylor ($15,000) and Raphael Manuel ($14,500), respectively, for providing security during alleged drug transactions in Metra stations. Of the 17 defendants, 10 are Cook County Sheriff’s correctional officers, four are Harvey police officers and one is a Chicago police officer. They allegedly accepted between $400 and $4,000 each on one or more occasions to serve as lookouts and be ready to intervene if real police or rival drug dealers attempted to interfere with transfers of cocaine and heroin, according to the affidavit.
Among the others charged were: -Tavis Ramsey, 31, of Chicago; - Dwayne Williams, 42, of Country Club Hills; - Antoine D. Dudley, 28, of Harvey, Harvey police officer; - James Engram, Jr., 41, of Calumet City, Harvey police officer; - Kyle T. Wilson, 31, of Chicago, Chicago police officer; - Timothy Funches, 26, of Bellwood, sheriff's officer; - Diallo Mingo, 34, of Calumet City, sheriff's officer; - Antwon Funches, 34, of Chicago, sheriff’s officer: - Antonio B. McCaskill, 30, of Harvey: - Richard O. Hall Jr., 35, of Chicago, sheriff's officer; - Robert L. Kelly, 32, of Glenwood, sheriff’s officer: - Daniel L. Lee, 31, of Chicago, sheriff's officer: and - Julius L. Scott Jr. , 34, of Richton Park, sheriff’s officer source myfoxchicago, sun-times, tribune
Tom Slick's Rebate and Switch police sting took place Sunday at 2906 S. Archer. The fake business office dubbed Tax Recovery Experts, Inc. was located in Bridgeport Mayor Richie Rich's old hood. Some of those arrested were so confused by the arrests one of the fugitives asked if he could use his stimulus check to help pay his bail.
Just to put salt in the wound some of the criminals had their vehicles towed by the Crook County sheriff's due to revoked driving privileges cashing in about $6,000 which covered the cost of the operation. Tom Slick had this to say about the sting's success "We honed in on what is probably people's prevailing motivator at times, which is greed"
"I'm doing a damn good job!" really? apparently somebody stole todd stroger's booster seat because he cant see cook county resident now pay the highest sales tax in the nation.
Including the quarter percentage-point RTA sales-tax increase approved by the General Assembly that went into effect April 1, Chicago shoppers will pay a 10.25 percent sales tax—higher than any other major American city. So, if one makes a $300 purchase, the tab in sales taxes would be $30.75 in Chicago, $30 in Schaumburg and Skokie and $29.25 in Orland Park. The county portion of the sales tax applies to clothes, furniture, restaurant food and alcohol. It does not apply to cars, boats, groceries or medicine. SOURCE CHICAGO TRIBUNE
After busting loose from Cook County Jail Debra Triplett the 48-year-old grandmother from Aurora blamed R Kelly for her five weeks trapped behind bars. In her first courtroom appearance since getting locked up, on Wednesday Triplett apologized and pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court and was released after serving 34 days of what could have been a 6 month sentence. Triplett, a self described "big, big fan" of Sylvester, has several drug convictions and was at the courthouse on May 22 originally for a criminal proceeding for her son. when Triplett and her kids found out Kelly was on the fifth floor of the courthouse she wanted to show her support for Sylvester by shouting "Free R. Kelly!" admist the jury entering the courtroom Judge Gaughan ordered her immediately jailed.
While Triplett was on lockdown her husband had to find day care for their 18-month-old granddaughter along with $5,000 of her $50,000 bail. Charles Triplett said "R. Kelly could have helped her out, he has the money." Triplett agreed that Sylvester should have done more for her "He should have let me know he cared," Triplett said. "Send me a message, a thank-you, a goodbye."
Sam Adam Jr. said,"Sylvester felt bad for her, he wanted to help her, but I advised him not to." Adam said he's sure Kelly would like to acknowledge her loyalty. "If she gives me her address, I'll make sure she gets a copy of his new CD when it comes out later this summer." R Kelly Fan Free After 34 Days In Jail For 3 Words - Truveo Video Search
