Laborers who pick up household garbage for Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation are paid $29 an hour. The guy who drives the garbage truck gets $30 an hour.The Chicago Way.
That apparently wasn’t enough for one South Side crew, authorities say.
Motor truck driver Genard Hannah and his two laborers — Manuel Aguinaga and Bobby Nelson — have been charged with bribery and official misconduct. They allegedly took cash bribes — of $60 to $80 — for hauling away construction debris and hazardous waste from a home in the 6800 block of South Evans, in the city’s Sixth Ward.
Chicago sanitation workers pick up garbage from single-family homes and two-, three- and four-flats. But they’re not permitted to use city equipment on city time to cart away hazardous waste or construction debris.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
3 Chicago city workers charged with bribery, misconduct
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
