Remember That Whole Thing About Burris Being a Piss Poor Comptroller?
I covered Burris’ crappy record as a Comptroller back in late April. What I missed was that he has been subpeonaed by the Funeral Director’s Association:
SPRINGFIELD — A group of funeral directors who say they have lost millions of dollars from mismanagement of a pre-need funeral trust fund have filed a subpoena against U.S. Sen. Roland Burris, seeking documents dating back as far as 1980.
Burris was Illinois Comptroller in that year and allowed the Illinois Funeral Directors Association to manage the trust. He later served as a lobbyist for the IFDA.
The plaintiffs, who are suing the IFDA for alleged mismanagement, say they want to know why Burris allowed the group to manage the trust, and they want records of his lobbying activities.
The (Springfield) State Journal-Register could not reach Burris for comment Friday, and Edward Wallace, an attorney for the plaintiffs, declined comment.
Credit to Illinois Review which just popped up on my Google alerts with the link.
May 19th, 2009 at
Burris being what he is… the bigger story here seems to be a failure of another industry to self-regulate/ self-manage.
Reads to me like funeral directors are suing other funeral directors for mismanaging funeral directors’ funds. The elected official who was supposed to oversee that industry let them oversee themselves, and it went kaplooey.
Adding … I wonder if Ill Review considers this a “frivolous lawsuit”