Honestly, when we heard that someone had been led out of City Hall in handcuffs, we had high hopes for an aldercreature, a treasurer or maybe even a former mayor who was visiting for the day. Seems it was someone else though:
A high-level City Hall official was arrested at work Wednesday on charges he was involved in Medicare fraud unrelated to his city job.
Mohammed K. Rashed, 45, of Chicago, is one of three men charged in an alleged scheme involving a home healthcare business Rashed owned with one of the other co-defendants, Bahir H. Khalil, 33, of Palos Hills.
Rashed — a $102,552-a-year coordinating engineer for the city’s Department of Transportation — was arrested Wednesday morning at his city office at 30 N. LaSalle and led out in handcuffs, stunning co-workers.
With all the graft and corruption at City Hall, we'd think they would be more surprised this wasn't happening more often. Especially at the Department of Transportation.