Things I find out about on the Internet that I don’t, so far anyhow, in Chicago newspapers, first of a series:
From Instapundit, which led to Reason Mag, which had found this in the Star-Ledger of New Jersey, this:
A New Jersey fugitive wanted on insurance fraud charges since 2007 was working for the immigration division of the Department of Homeland Security in Georgia, despite a nationwide alert for her arrest, Essex County prosecutors said yesterday.
It’s a New Jersey story, yes, and we are in Illinois, but that dept of homeland se-what? is a national organization, I believe, and this story exposes bureaucratic f-up. I think it does.
So does the law:
“We found it surprising, alarming that an employee of the Department of Homeland Security is a fraudster, and we do not understand how she could have remained employed there with an open criminal warrant for her arrest remaining on the interstate system without being discovered,” said [Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Michael] Morris.
It’s worth an item in Chi Trib or Sun-Times?
It is the sort of item that lends spunk to the lineup, has an edge to it, and we jaded readers like edgy stuff.
Blithe Spirit 