In a brazen extension of the Chicago Way's principle of never wasting a crisis and/or a brazen display of a total lack of morals that awed even hardened Cook County (which encompasses Chicago) pols, Carla Ogelsby, former chief of staff to the president of the County Board, who left her job after being recently charged with public corruption, theft and money laundering, has filed for unemployment compensation. According to Fox News, automatically thinking unemployment compensation was her right was either so clever, so enterprising for exploiting a new source of government revenue for private gain or even so blatantly publicly indicative that this once well paid, powerful woman, who is accused of awarding thousands of dollars of government contracts to friends and family, doesn't understand the seriousness of the charges that even the normally unshockable Cook County officials were more than a little shocked when she filed a claim with the state, asking that the county pay her...(Read Full Post)