Legal Opinion
Valentino v. Village of South Chicago Heights
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 30, 2009No. 06-3882PublishedCited by 225 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge.
In 2001, nepotism was alive and well in the Village of South Chicago Heights. Its small municipal government employed at least six members of its mayor’s extended family, and several of his friends and campaign supporters. When Sandra Valentino allegedly discovered that the Village was paying several of these employees for hours that they did not actually work, she discussed the situation with the future head of Citizens Against Corruption, William Bramanti. Bramanti sent a letter to the citizens of the Village detailing this alleged ghost payrolling and otherwise…
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