We Don't Need No Stinkin' Badges

Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges. We don't need no stinkin' eminent domain. Nah. Tribune:

Federal authorities are investigating allegations that Mayor Richard Daley's administration pressured property owners in the mayor's native Bridgeport to sell to developers favored by City Hall.

Three industrial landowners in the South Side neighborhood told the Tribune that they were contacted by the FBI -- two as recently as last week. They contend that building inspectors harassed them, the city threatened to condemn their property or they were hit with unfavorable zoning after refusing to sell to political insiders for housing projects.

But the Feds outrank the City's building inspectors, this opens a "new front" in their corruption of the Daley administration.

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