Thread: FORMER DALEY AID INDICTED BY FEDS

Former top aide to Daley indicted by feds

March 22, 2007
Staff and wire reports
Al Sanchez, a retired commissioner of Chicago’s Department of Streets and Sanitation, was indicted today on federal fraud charges in connection with the federal goverment's ongoing probe of city hiring.

Sanchez and Chicago police officer Aaron Delvalle, were high-level leaders of the Hispanic Democratic Organization, a citywide political campaign organization. Sanchez, a principal organizer for HDO, was charged with engaging in a systematic fraud scheme to provide city jobs, promotions and other employment benefits to induce and reward political campaign work. Delvalle, who assisted Sanchez in coordinating HDO activities and who received immunity from prosecution relating to this investigation, was charged with perjury for allegedly lying to the federal grand jury about his HDO activities.

Sanchez, 59, was charged with nine counts of mail fraud, and Delvalle, 34, was charged with one count of perjury in a 10-count indictment returned today by a federal grand jury.

Sanchez was commissioner of Streets and Sanitation from June 1999 until he retired in June 2005, and was deputy commissioner from 1995 to 1999. The department has about 4,000 workers. Before joining Streets and Sanitation, Sanchez worked in the city’s Health Department and was the first deputy director of the Mayor’s Office of Information and Inquiry, where he performed certain personnel duties in both of those departments.

Delvalle has been a city employee since April 1997, working at various times in Inormation & Inquiry, Streets and Sanitation and the Chicago Police Department.

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