The names of political operatives from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley’s 1995 re-election campaign have been mentioned in the federal trial of four former city officials accused of providing jobs and promotions to unqualified people who supported the campaign. According to the Chicago Tribune, 18 of Daley’s ward coordinators from a 1995 campaign map were listed 771 times on a list of job sponsors prosecutors used as evidence in the trial. Robert Sorich and three others are charged providing jobs and promotions to Daley supporters regardless of their qualifications, but at least one of the 18 ward coordinators told the Tribune that everybody he recommended for a job was qualified.
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