9:42 p.m. CDT, October 30, 2013
A onetime business partner of former Mayor Richard M. Daley's son was sentenced Wednesday to 17 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that used a minority-owned company as a front to fraudulently secure millions of dollars in Chicago city contracts.
Anthony Duffy, who pleaded guilty last year to making a false statement to FBI agents, was president of a firm that performed sewer work for the city under contracts that were awarded to a minority-owned business. Duffy is white.
Duffy lied to federal investigators about why he didn't reveal on economic disclosure statements that two of the former mayor's relatives, son Patrick Daley and nephew Robert Vanecko, were investors in the sewer company. Neither Daley nor Vanecko was charged with any wrongdoing
Prosecutors said Duffy did not want the Daley family connection known for fear it would draw attention to the minority fraud, but he told investigators their names had been left off the paperwork because of a careless oversight by him.
The minority-owned business run by co-defendant Jesse Brunt operated as a "pass-through" to obtain the sewer-cleaning contracts, but Duffy's company did the actual work. Brunt, who also pleaded guilty, is awaiting sentencing.
Duffy, 49, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur to surrender to prison in January. Duffy, a citizen of the United Kingdom, could be deported after he finishes prison. Duffy's attorney had asked for probation.
A contrite Duffy said he was "embarrassed and humiliated and disgraced" to be standing in front of a federal judge. He said he cared deeply about his family, including his pregnant wife and a son whose team he couldn't coach because he is a felon.
"I never intended to hurt anybody," Duffy said.
mitsmith@tribune.com
It is amazing how big bad Daley folded and just handed everything over to that midget Rahm. Amazing. No fight at all. Total wimp. This is a guy that never gave it a second thought when he was destroying some underling for some perceived act of disrespect or mistake. Daley was just a bully.
ReplyDeleteEliminate minority set-a-sides. It's discriminatory.
ReplyDeletehow this guy gets away with all he can was explained to me by a rtd. FBI agent we met in florida,he was assigned to the Chicago office for a number of years and word was to quash any and all investigations against him personally .Feds had him and a few others as all around snitches to as any and all corruption by any aldermen and corporations not friendly or disrepectful to the administration,a few times he even was known to wear a court mandated wire to get info on individuals,draw your own conclusions people....
ReplyDeleteI don't know that Daley ever wore a wire. I do know that several people around him mysteriously went down.
Deletehow do you spell WIMPY?
ReplyDeleteJurt remember, that Daley had the total on going support of thr 19th Ward democrat organization! Evey last one of them was tortally in his pocket while
ReplyDeletehe bankrupted our city!
Yeah, but you know those guys are good guys.....you know....they go to the football game at Mt Greenwood and Beverly Pk....Oh yeah they show up at the school functions and drink beer with us....yeah they like the Bears....yeah they say they are for jobs for us union guys....yeah I know that building is still less than half of what it was under Bush....but yeah don't get me started on Bush....yeah we got us Obama....and if that Romney guy got in we would have higher gas prices....we would have really high unemployment....and like food prices would be really high too....oh hey...wait...that is kinda what we got now huh ?
ReplyDeleteI sometimes bristle at the comparisons that are being made more frequently today between Chicago and Detroit. On one hand I do not think the two are very comparable....but one article rationalized that the reason we could go in the dumper was our ridiculous spending, borrowing and over stretched pension plans that are a ticking time bomb.....I used to think Daley was doing his best for the city...but it is obvious that once again, the media in our town was completely in the pocket of the Democrats.., how many times did they look the other way ? And how much will their lack of journalistic integrity cost us all in the end ? Next time you see one of those striped suit monkeys give em an earful....make them pay something for their fraud....call em out boys...
ReplyDeleteHey someone had to pay for those multi pension households, and those jacked up public sector payrolls and their gold plated health care....so they could put those big additions on their houses and drive those huge SUVs to their summer cottages...We have had the great recession in the private sector while these clowns like Daley, Obama, Durbin, Maloney, etc...propped up their voting bases through the government budgets....now coming soon....."The Great Government Recession"......that should be fun.
ReplyDeleteFunny how no one on here ever talks about the Park Grill. Too close to home?
ReplyDeleteI would like to know a little more. I am wondering what O'Malleys relationship is to the city clouters ? I know that Foxgrovers Father was obviously politically connected as a judge (and of course went to prison for stealing cash) - but who the heck is O'Malley ? Who does he know ?
DeletePerhaps. But I do not think that Hurley or Cunningham are in anyone's pocket; we are lucky to have them.
ReplyDeleteExcept the Gay rights movement, which has pumped tens of thousands into their campaigns.
DeleteNO clearly they are not in anyones pocket. No Fran Hurley - a non college graduate "gofer" who worked in the 19th Ward office doing whatever the "bosses" told her to do - well she just won on sure pluck and hard work! Bill Cunningham ? Why he is just a regular guy who was promoted through the ranks of the Sheriff Dept under both Alderman Mike Sheahan and later Sheriff Dart. Those guys are true outsiders and Bill is free to vote any way he wants and owes no one anything at all. The above post must be from someone new to the Chicagoland area. You will find out.
Deletehurley and cunningham they are both a joke who would want to go to springfield or work in city hall today they both are going to get two pensions wake up people
DeleteLast year, there was a meeting at Mt. Greenwood Park about pensions. Cunningham was there. Hurley was NOT.
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