Sandy's Lighthouse Edition
A Quote To Remember..."Let us disappoint
the men who would raise themselves upon the ruin of our
country." ~John
Adams
DuPage Forest Officials Discover Scam
Two former
administrators charged with scamming the DuPage County Forest Preserve District
out of more than $150,000 avoided suspicion for years, officials say, until
their loyalty to a vendor seeking a computer contract triggered an internal
investigation so secret that only three district officials knew about it.
Prompted by the findings of the forest preserve probe, law enforcement
authorities conducted their own investigation for nearly 10 months before
numerous counts of theft, conspiracy, accepting kickbacks, official misconduct
and other charges were filed in September 2012 against Mark McDonald, 53, of
Wheaton, and David Tepper, 49, of River Forest. Prosecutors have accused
McDonald, the district's former information technology director, and Tepper, the
district's former IT manager, of running two "elaborate" schemes over a six-year
period. A co-defendant, Arif Mahmood — owner of the now-shuttered Alamach
Technologies Inc. — is facing charges of conspiracy, theft, accepting kickbacks
and official misconduct in connection with one of the
schemes.
“Pay China
First Act”
Rep. Jan
Schakowsky released the following statement after voting against the "Pay
China First Act": "Today I voted against yet another risky proposal the
Republicans call the "Full Faith and Credit Act," but is more accurately called
the "Pay China First Act." Despite its name, this bill – which has no chance of
becoming law – would actually undermine the full faith and credit of the United
States. It would create financial chaos for families, businesses and entire
communities – continuing the Republican pattern of lurching from one
self-inflicted crisis to another. …”
Flood Disaster Aid – Approved
It’s
official: the area is a genuine disaster. Naperville residents and others in
DuPage and Will counties who sustained property damage in last month’s floods
have received the go-ahead to apply for federal disaster assistance. The
clearance resulted from President Barack Obama’s signing last week of a federal
disaster declaration for 11 northern Illinois counties, including DuPage, Will,
Kane and Kendall. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn submitted a request for the action
Thursday, and Obama obliged the following day. The designation enables flood
victims to apply for aid that includes grants for temporary housing, home
repairs or replacement, and other expenses related to the disaster, as well as
low-interest loans administered through the Small Business Administration, which
are available to both residents and businesses. The Federal Emergency Management
Agency administers the assistance program. Registration can be done online at
www.disasterassistance.gov, or by calling 800-621-3362. Those with hearing and
speech impediments should call 800-462-7585. …
Watch out for the Huge
Hula Hoop on I-88
WBEZ:
Fermilab National Accelerator Laboratory in west suburban Batavia has a very
unusual shipment coming this summer: an electromagnetic ring so wide its journey
will shut down whole highways. The ring, which looks like a huge hula-hoop,
currently resides at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, where it’s
been used to conduct high-level experiments on tiny subatomic particles called
muons. “We use them to probe the basic underlying structure of particle
physics,” said Chris Polly, a Fermilab physicist. The
journey to the western
suburbs of Chicago this summer will begin with a barge trip down around the tip
of Florida, through the Gulf of Mexico and up the Mississippi River to get to
Chicago’s waterways. The
ring will then get off the boat at Lemont Port to be transported to
the Batavia lab using
high-tech remote control carts. Between the carts, the ring and the entourage of
police officers and scientists, the process is expected to shut down stretches
of I-88 and I-355 overnight in July. The entire
trip is about 3,200
miles. …
Posted by Sandy Gresak . I’d like to thank Paul
Sjordal for graciously allowing me to use articles from his newsletter. If
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