PAY ROLLS PADDED
GREAT CHICAGO SCANDAL ENDS IN TEN ARRESTS • £200,000 INVOLVED CHICAGO, Thursday. The latest, if not the greatest, scandal in Chicago came to light today with the indictment of ten prominent political persons on charges of frauds involving more than £200,000. Items in the charges are the expenditure of £2OO on a street lamp for a certain boulevard, and excessive expenditures on a park, which cost £200,000, and a bridle path. More than £BO,OOO was spent for cinders for the path, which in fact remains unused. Other allegations are unlawful and unauthorised expenditures of hundreds of thousands of dollars, in sums of 500 dollars,, to escape the law, which provides for competitive bidding where an outlay larger than 500 dollars is involved, and also extensive “padding” of pay rolls.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 9
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131PAY ROLLS PADDED Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 986, 31 May 1930, Page 9
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