Burris Awarded Millions In Contracts To Campaign Contributors As AG

During Roland Burris' first full fiscal year as Illinois attorney general, more than half of the money his office awarded for outside legal work went to campaign contributors, according to a book published by Illinois Issues magazine and the Springfield State Journal-Register.

In FY 1992, Burris' office issued roughly $4 million in outside legal contracts to individuals and law firms, according to the book, Illinois For Sale, which was published in 1997. More than $2.25 million of that amount went to contributors to Burris' campaign or to the main Democratic fundraising committee.

Read the whole story here.

Comments

[lvdragonlady]

If this headline is true then he is as crooked as the governor that appointed him and can not be trusted to represent the people of Illinois.

[Kalel]

The sad thing is that his record is about as clean as most.

[TheShadow]

Yes indeed...L­et this humble civil servant have his rightful seat in the hollowed halls of the U.S. Senate. He should feel right at home with his "birds of a feather".

It's a long time passed since the peoples house had a good cleaning of the dung and that stench of ehtical and moral decay that permeates it.

When will we ever learn....

[getoffmedz]

Has anyone actually thoroughly vetted Roland Burris?

[RockySoldier]

yeah, the people of illinois did when we denied him the governorship in 94 and 02.

and he made some comments about his opponents' racial make up in 98, further alienating himself from the populace. he's a joke. blago's joke on the rest of us and the state of illinois.

he's trying to wreck president elect obama.

[getoffmedz]

Any rebuttals to RockySoldier?

Good stuff, thanks.

About your last sentence?