George Ryan appointing Bill Shaw and numerous others to sweetheart positions to fatten their pensions. Shaw is particularly disturbing given his attempts to put a stalking horse candidate on the ballot versus Jackson Jr.
Another brazen appointment that has not graced this page yet is:
– Joan Mitnick Fawell, the estranged wife of Ryan’s former chief of staff Scott Fawell, was given a four-year term at the Illinois Financial Institutions Department at an annual salary of almost $84,000. Her husband has been indicted on fraud charges in the federal Operation Safe Road investigation of the secretary of state’s office when Ryan ran it.
Brazen. The wholesale looting of the state treasury will come to an end someday, but not soon enough.