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John Schmidt comments on how the hired truck scandal may have happened.
12020-05-22T15:34:46-05:00Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd45251John Schmidt comments on how the hired truck scandal may have happened. From interview conducted November 1, 2017.plain2020-05-22T15:34:46-05:00Dan Harpereff3db32ed95b3efe91d381826e2c10c145cd452
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1media/EXH_RMD16_07_0272_0006_001_004.jpg2020-05-11T17:04:50-05:00FOCUS ON: Hired Truck Controversy57A scandal in which some favored firms allegedly won trucking contracts with the city.plain2021-01-12T15:39:27-06:00In 2004, Chicago's hired truck program became the center of a controversy. For more than a decade, the city had outsourced its needs for dump trucks and delivery trucks. Using no bid contracts, the city hired private firms. Investigative journalists, however, reported that many of the firms did little or no work and alleged that some firms funneled money through the Hispanic Democratic Organization in order to win preferential treatment from the city. According to one account, an estimated $10 million was allegedly wasted per year. Prosecutors indicted more than forty people, several of whom worked for the city under Mayor Daley. The mayor, however, was never indicted.
Victor Reyes, who worked in Daley's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, comments on the hired truck controversy: John Schmidt, chief of staff (1989) and advisor to Mayor Daley, discusses a city official implicated in the controversy: William Daley, the mayor's brother, reflects on the reaction of the news media to the hired truck controversy and to other controversies:
