FBI Investigating Byrd-Bennett Deals in Detroit

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1. Michael Paul Goldenberg says:

   October 27, 2015 at 5:05 pm

   As someone who did consulting working in DPS during the Byrd-Bennett era, I’ve wondered when she’d finally have to pay for her dirty dealing in Detroit. I’m gratified to see her chickens coming home to roost at last.

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   • Dienne says:

     October 27, 2015 at 5:10 pm

     I’d be even more gratified if we could see her co-conspirators’ chickens coming home to roost, in particular her bosses’. Not that I feel at all sorry for BBB, but I’m tired of seeing the small fry roasted while the big birds fly free.

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     • Michael Paul Goldenberg says:

       October 27, 2015 at 5:17 pm

       In the case of DPS, there aren’t many bigger fry than she was at the time. Robert Bobb has moved on and no one has accused him of corruption: just incompetence. I don’t think even the Nerd-in-Chief is guilty of lining his pockets: just doing what we expected from him when it comes to hurting the poor, undermining democracy, and generally pursuing the joint neo-con/neo-lib agenda. Nailing BBB to the wall and putting her in jail (maybe recovering a few of the stolen millions for DPS) is likely as good as it gets here. Chicago is probably a different story.

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2. tultican says:

   October 27, 2015 at 5:33 pm

   The Mayor Rahm sure has some interesting colleagues!

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3. Chiara says:

   October 27, 2015 at 5:53 pm

   They really just brought her in to wind down the public school sector, right?
   Mission accomplished.

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4. Chiara says:

   October 27, 2015 at 5:57 pm

   Can we get some corruption reform in the US instead of education refiorm?

   “One of the governor’s chief education advisers is employed by a firm that does millions of dollars of business with the state’s schools, although that has not been disclosed to the public.
   Richard Parsons, the leader of an earlier state education commission that recommended heavy investment in technology and head of a new education task force, works for a company whose principal holdings include an education technology firm that does a substantial business with the state.
   Parsons, the former chairman of Citigroup and CEO and chairman of Time Warner, was recently named the head of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s task force on the Common Core.”

   I mean, come on. They don’t even bother to cover it up anymore.

   Read more: http://libn.com/2015/10/27/gov-chief-ed-advisers-firm-major-supplier-to-state-ed/#ixzz3po96JFsw

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   • Ellen Lubic says:

     October 27, 2015 at 8:11 pm

     If we are patient awhile longer, perhaps the FBI and the SEC will have found enough on the John Deasy scandal that they can share a cell in the Federal Pen.

     The guy who awarded Deasy his substandard, aka phony, PhD, from the U. of Louisville, was released recently for stealing milions in grant funding from his university. So his cell might still be vacant.

     Broad’s birds of feather might get indicted together.

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5. Jon Awbrey says:

   October 27, 2015 at 6:05 pm

   You see the same recipe for corruption in every crookbook. No-bid contracts, no-search appointments, no-voter control over a flood of new laws and offices, setting aside the voters’ referenda to repeal them.

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6. Cheryl says:

   October 31, 2015 at 10:39 am

   Chicago Suntimes just posted an article about how large the SUPES/Synesi investigation has become. —-Fallout Across the US.
   http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1059401/bga-public-eye-cps-supes-probe-fallout-across-u-s

   10/31/15

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