Fitzie VS The Chicago Machine

[dbeach]

"Chicago Chicago..the toddlin town.."

"CIA leak prosecutor takes on Chicago machine
Fitzgerald leads investigation into Daley's political empire


Updated: 5:21 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2005
CHICAGO - He sent members of New York’s Gambino crime family to the federal pen and he jailed terrorists who planned to strike America with a wave of bombings.

Now Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor who heads Washington’s CIA leak investigation, is also taking on City Hall.

The 45-year-old New Yorker who is chief federal prosecutor in Chicago is digging deep into Mayor Richard M. Daley’s political empire. And former Illinois Gov. George Ryan is due to go to trial on federal corruption charges Sept. 15.



Miller said she was keeping her promise of confidentiality to her source. But Fitzgerald said not even the attorney general or director of central intelligence could make such a vow."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8852202


"How bout those Cubs??

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. equal opportunity indicter

with the hospital scandal, and other crimes, he has gotten corrupt officials from both sides to admit guilt and plea bargain. He has done more to clean up corruption than any other person ever in the history of Illinois, Cook County or Chicago.

Years ago, when the papa Daley arrested and beat up the SDS and those against the war, he was quoted as saying "Da police ain't here to create disorder; da police is here to preserve disorder."

Well, dis order is about to disband.

[kysrsoze]

2. Can't wait to see Daley go down. His "machine" is despicable

They give Dems a really bad name.

BTW - Cubs suck and I'm really sad about that. They're just terrible this year. I wish the Sox the best, but I'm just bummed about the Cubs.

[dbeach]

3. sorry for your pain

10/27/04..the nite hell froze over and the Red Sox scated away

'Free at last free at last>>'

maybe after Fitzie cleans house..Cubs will win!!

Sure pray he also cleans up a certain White House if ya catch my thought waves???

[earth mom]

4. Go Fitz! Glad to see this thread posted! :)

My fingers and toes are crossed and I hope Fitz kicks butt-both in Chicago and more importantly D.C.!

p.s. I'm starting to think of Fitz as a Super Hero! :patriot:

[LibertyorDeath]

5. The Prosecutor Never Rests

Patrick J. 'Bulldog' Fitzgerald




The Prosecutor Never Rests
Whether Probing a Leak or Trying Terrorists, Patrick Fitzgerald Is Relentless

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 2, 2005; Page C01

CHICAGO

Fitzgerald, 44, is the special prosecutor investigating the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. The gifted son of an Irish doorman makes no bones about challenging the establishment. His office is also prosecuting former Illinois governor George Ryan and loyal associates of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on influence-peddling and corruption charges.

He sees his task as getting to the bottom of things in ways as creative as the law allows. The law doesn't say you can't question a sitting president about his contacts or an investigative reporter about confidential sources. So Fitzgerald has done both, including quizzing Bush for more than an hour in the White House last June. His assiduous demands for answers from journalists alarms critics who believe he has created the greatest confrontation between the government and the press in a generation.

"His thoroughness, his relentlessness, his work ethic are legendary," says terrorism expert Daniel Benjamin, a former member of the National Security Council.

Seeing Fitzgerald in action, says Los Angeles lawyer Anthony Bouza, a college classmate, is "like watching a sophisticated machine." Colleagues speak in head-shaking tones of Fitzgerald's skills in taking a case to trial. A Phi Beta Kappa math and economics student at Amherst before earning a Harvard law degree in 1985, he has a gift for solving puzzles and simplifying complexity for a jury.

More

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55560-2005Feb1.html

[lady lib]

6. That is one busy pit bull

sniffing out corruption in D.C. and Chicago. Lordy, you know he's gotta hose himself down everyday just to get rid of the stench.

I'm glad he's going after both Dems and Repukes, no one can say he's partisan.

[dbeach]

7. WAVES OF BLISS

to guide the canine...

[dbeach]

8. fitzie on the move..

Fitzie is movin and groovin
some propaganda in the story..trying to make it sound mushy and rover is OK with FITZIE !!not likely!!

'In the midst of aggressively pursuing corruption at the state and local level in Chicago, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is facing an immense challenge in his apparently unprecedented dual role as special prosecutor in the White House leak investigation.
In Chicago, his workload includes the prosecution of former Illinois Gov. George Ryan and an investigation of corruption at City Hall. In Washington, he's investigating the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the press, a probe that appears headed toward presidential adviser Karl Rove."
http://chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/news.pl?id=17133