Federal judge will appoint a hiring monitor at IDOT to root out Quinn’s patronage hires
October 24, 2014
Federal Judge Sidney Schenkier has ruled in favor of good government advocates and will be appointing a hiring monitor at the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). A recent report from Illinois Auditor General Bill Holland found that hundreds of IDOT employees were illegally hired by the Blagojevich and Quinn administrations. “The mission of state agencies is to do the work