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Crash Landing

Number 17708
Subject Whistleblowers
Source Chicago Magazine
State IL
Year 2001
Publication Date January 2001
Summary This article tells how one man "for years tried to expose corruption in the state driver's license facility where he worked. ... He told of how would-be truck drivers were paying bribes to get commercial driver's licenses, known as CDLs, and how he suspected the state employees taking the bribes in turn used the money to satisfy the intense pressure to buy tickets to political fundraisers held for the boss, (Governor) Ryan. ... Then a horrific highway accident killed six children."
Category General
Pages 9
Keywords whistleblowers;fake drivers licenses;fraud;automobiles;accident
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