Mayor Daley's Administration Photo

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Please enjoy this photo of Mayor Daley and his Staff as the Sun-Times continues to expose his cheerleaders setting up scam deals and getting promoted for outrageous behavior and inside deals. We provided videos in the past that exposed the O’Hare expansion deals, and now enjoy this story about Rosemary Andolino. Does she have a husband with another name at the Department of Water Management? During 2003, Mayor Daley’s staff was out of control and pigged on Taxpayers money for personal gain. I am disgusted. How many Chicago employees had scams like this noted below going on, and they get to keep their job. Read the story below. Patrick McDonough

]]>Daley aide hoped to cash in on Rezko deal
Planner agreed to buy home as Rezko sought city’s OK to expand

September 6, 2007
One of Chicago’s top city planners agreed to buy a town home from politically connected developer Tony Rezko, even as her agency was deciding whether Rezko would be allowed to expand the project.

Rosemarie Andolino — who was the second-ranking official in Mayor Daley’s planning department — said she hoped to make a buck by flipping the town house she bought from Rezko, the former high-flying developer now under indictment for fraud and corruption. But the housing market slumped, and, for now, she’s stuck with the town house and leasing it out.

Rosemarie Andolino — who was the second-ranking official in Mayor Daley’s planning department — said she hoped to make a buck by flipping the town house she bought from Rezko, the former high-flying developer now under indictment for fraud and corruption. But the housing market slumped, and, for now, she’s stuck with the town house and leasing it out.

Andolino said she and her father agreed to buy the not-yet-built town house in 2003 only after leaving the planning department.
Rosemarie Andolino has been trying to sell this townhouse, left, ever since she and her father bought it from Tony Rezko.
Andolino said she and her father agreed to buy the not-yet-built town house in 2003 only after leaving the planning department.

“I was already gone when I made a purchase like every other citizen,” Andolino said.

But, according to an attorney for Rezko’s Rezmar Corp., the Andolinos’ purchase contract was accepted on June 16, 2003. Andolino didn’t leave the planning department until two weeks later, city records show — on June 30, 2003. She left to run the mayor’s O’Hare Modernization Program.

When Andolino signed the purchase papers, city planners were evaluating Rezko’s request to build two additional town houses at the 54-unit development on Irving Park Road along the Chicago River, a request that was approved months later, after Andolino had left the agency.

Andolino and her father, Steven Andolino, were among the Rezko development’s first buyers and paid one of the lowest prices — about $434,000. Their home has two bedrooms and two-and-a-half baths, though no view of the river.

Andolino said she never met Rezko. And she said she doesn’t recall if she was ever involved with any deal Rezko did with the planning department — including his failed plans for a blockbuster development on 62 acres in the South Loop, for which Rezko was seeking $140 million in tax subsidies from the city.

The Andolinos closed on the town house in August 2005 and immediately began trying to resell it.

Other public officials have made money buying homes in other Rezko developments and reselling them. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) made a $175,000 profit last year when he sold a home he’d bought from Rezko two years earlier. And Jack Lavin made $50,000 when he resold a home in 2000 he’d bought from Rezko five months earlier. At the time, Lavin was a Rezko employee. He’s now the state’s economic development director.

Tim Novak
Gerald Wesolowski — the convicted bagman who collected bribes from Hired Truck companies for former city water honcho Donald Tomczak — is back home. Wesolowski, who was an administrator in the city water department, was released Aug. 24 from a halfway house after serving most of his two-year prison sentence for pocketing $4,000 of the nearly $200,000 in kickbacks he collected for Tomczak, who’s still locked up.
Tim Novak

6 Replies to “Mayor Daley's Administration Photo”

  1. That comparison is an insult Pat to those delicious pink pigs.

    btw– reasearch the amount of money Rezmar has given to John Daley, the Daleys and the 11th ward and all the “Daleys”….and on and on.
    Carl Segvich

  2. Rosie never met Tony Rezko?
    and she never knew who she was even though she was in planning?
    LOL
    She is LYING

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