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Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Windy City's Daley Delayed

"In a city in which the mayor is very much a hands-on mayor, it is improbable to a very high degree that these kinds of offenses could have taken place without acknowledgement or the tacit approval of Mayor Daley," Shakman said.

Machinists were hired who had never even been machinists," she said. "All the promotions I saw dealt with favoritism."

The government alleges that the two manipulated the hiring system by inflating test scores and conducting sham interviews. In one case, the favored applicant won the job after getting a perfect rating on his interview. Problem was, prosecutors allege, he was serving in Iraq when the supposed interview took place.

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