Recently, a blogger/citizen reporter Sarah Karp in Chicago brought down Barbara Byrd-Bennet by asking the obvious questions- you can watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQGj5CruvAg&feature=youtu.be [1]
Former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett recently pleaded guilty to corruption charges. BGA Senior Investigator Sarah Karp broke the story that led to the federal investigation two years ago when she was working for Catalyst Chicago, an education publication. Sarah answers five questions about her investigation and the fallout.
Read more: http://www.bettergov.org/blogs/investigators_notebook/byrd-bennett_arrest,_the_perils_of_privatization/ [2]
Chicago is now reeling with the aftermath and the accounting is going back to the person in charge - Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Cleveland is also being scrutinized. Afterall, Barbara Byrd-Bennett's behavior did not happen overnight.
For almost two months now - research conducted by Lily Miller has been the leading story at REALNEO :
Lily Miller also contacted the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and Washington Post reporter Michael Sallah, who exposed the discriminatory practice of tax lien sales in his series: Left with Nothing.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2013/09/08/left-with-nothing/ [4]
This week, on Thursday 12/3 , Cuyahoga County administration under County Executive Armond Budish announced that the sale of tax liens will be suspended. Northeast Ohio, this is happy news.
There is a lot to dismantle in Chicago and in Cleveland. Sarah Buduson at WEWS Channel 5 pointed out the obvious incongruity in who gets away with not paying their taxes.
She also exposed the "Dirty Dozen" of major tax scofflaws in Northeast Ohio.
http://realneo.us/content/wews-dirty-dozen-story [7]
http://realneo.us/content/does-anyone-care-dirty-dozen-and-more [8]
Armond Budish is left with this mess - but it started way back in the 70s-90s as federal pots of HUD money became available to urban areas [9]. Mob demolitions and "urban renewal" mentality. Mayor Frank Jackson is at the center of the unholy story - surrounded by a whole crew of his former city council cohorts. Budish knows he is sitting on a time bomb. He needs to break this story, before the rest of the world unravels it for him.
http://www.ideastream.org/news/cuyahoga-county-woods-cove-face-lawsuit-over-tax-lien-sales [10]
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