5700 connected to Chicago clout

The list of more than 5,700 politically connected job applicants became public as a longtime secretary in Mayor Richard Daley's office testified for federal prosecutors against former Daley patronage chief Robert Sorich.

 

Although city officials insisted for years that they did not engage in patronage hiring, secretary Patricia Molloy said aides in the mayor's office kept track of job seekers and their political sponsors, beginning shortly after Daley's election in 1989 and during much of his 17-year tenure.

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The names of the mayor's three brothers--Michael, John and William Daley--were entered into the database as sponsors of people seeking jobs or promotions, according to court records. Other sponsors on the list include longtime mayoral political strategist Jeremiah Joyce and former top aides Timothy Degnan, Victor Reyes and John Doerrer.

 

At least two applicants were described as friends of the mayor, and Gov. Rod Blagojevich also was identified as a sponsor of a successful job seeker on the list, which Molloy compiled between 1990 and 1997.

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