ILLINOIS: Food workers charged; 2 ex-city inspectors accused in alleged payoff scheme - (Chicago Tribune)
December 5, 2007 – 7:07 pmFederal authorities were cited as saying Tuesday that hundreds of restaurant, grocery and food-service workers bypassed required training on food-borne illnesses and proper food preparation the crooked Chicago way: by making payoffs to a certified instructor,.
The revelation came as two former Chicago Public Health Department inspectors were charged with fraud for allegedly ensuring that food-service sanitation certificates were issued to cash-paying applicants even though they didn’t do the required course work.
City Inspector General David Hoffman, whose office participated in the probe, was quoted as saying, “The point of requiring a state and city certificate is to protect our health by ensuring that those in charge of handling food — whether in restaurants, schools, hospitals, or other places — have been properly trained. But through their fraud scheme, these former city health inspectors increased health risks by allowing hundreds of these individuals to bypass the rules.”
The story says that Maryanne Koll, […]
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