Our mayor thinks it was a "total coincidence" that his childhood and close family friend of Erica Heilmann just so happens to work at the firm that granted us $500,000 in a settlement? Nothing could be more of a coinky-dink. Cmon really?

coinky dink
Anything like Your coincidences Surrounding the hiring of Querry & Harrow with a $550,000.00 No-Bid contract? Or the execution of Madigans "Reccommendations" and his support for the "Fundraiser" for Bob Streit? And More reccommendations for other Attorneys for Bond work etc.? And how about that coinky dink that the 111th st project is being done by Madigan's Clients, Hamilton Partners? And Gosh, why did K-5 (the street re-surfacing co.) get a No-Bid $5,000,000.00 contract?
This is certainly MORE of a coinky-dink. Come on.

Man Dave/QC you are touchy tonight, did coinky hit a nerve of truth??

Erica Heilmanns connection to Bob Heyne is significant. Since we pay your health insurance and medical bills QC why don't you thank us for you psychiatric care?

Looks like a nerve was hit, Rich !! You are describing the Trustee in the 6th district to a T. He and several board members need to be shown the door, balls included, ASAP.

Is it possible that Phelan thinks that if he beats on the mayor enough, the mayor will step down and Phelan would run against Bury? Is he just using her?

Sounds like Dave has a few " puppets " out there too. Keep dancing OL Chick.

Hey Rich
Does Wacchovia know that you spend all of your time on the Patch? You should be taking some....brush up courses on Finance,actually

QC/Dave you blogging from claussen miller??

good idea. the langugae used in some of these e-mails shows an unbelievable lack of judgment by our elected officials. I hope they don't all act this way

Really, though, that doesn't apply to just about anyone running for public office?

Maybe others have the good sense not to use f... or bulls... in e-mails!

f-bombs show a lack of imagination

Then the vast majority of the board is unimaginative. I've heard it first hand, and Mr Olejniczak was captured on tape at the end of a recent meeting. Seriously, the language thing, it's completely irrelevant.

OakLawnGuy,
Language is NOT irrelevant. Cursing shows lack of intelligence and vocabulary. There are many people, myself included, who manage to hold very intelligent conversations and never curse. As for Dave's acting abilities, maybe he's good in Oak Lawn Park District theater with his other actor/attorney cronies, but I've had it with his two-faced, phony smiley face, glad-handing act. He's a hypocrite of the highest order. He and the entire board AND that creepy, arrogant Village Manager HAVE GOT TO GO!

I think the board bickers because they won't let the king get away with his tricks anymore - and then he retaliates - and then they won't let him - and then he gets mad and finds a new way to get em - and then they won't let him do that - etc. etc. etc.

In the mean time nothing good in Oak Lawn gets done. The king should find a nice excuse to step down - family needs him for example - and let Oak Lawn return to the great place it should be and could be without his morally bankrupt leadership.

I agrre with small manbig woman. The board seemed to work together much better before it all hit the fan in 2009. I believe the village has some good representation with all current trustees, except for maybe Cindy, only because her body of work is small up to this point. New leadership at the top will make a big difference in my opinion. Also having someone who is more than part time would help too. And to clarify, this is not an endorsement of Dr. Bury. She has not shown me anything that would make me believe she is the answer. She has helped show, in my opinion, that the current mayor is not the right man for the job anymore. but has not shown anything that she is the correct replacement.

"I do believe that beating on Tressler for refunds (which wasn't done) would have gotten more for less." - Dude, they gave Oak Lawn back $500,000 and it would have been seven figures if Heilmann didn't tamper with a key witness.

SmallManBigWoman - if you have to spend 453k to get 470k you didn't get anything. OK, 17k but collateral costs aren't included. Only the law firm(s) that fought the case MADE money. The Mayors statement saying that the Village opted not to aggressively go after the money firsthand like every other debt seems important because every dollar they got back doing it that way would have been money directly back to the Village. Even under the best of circumstances that G&K could dream up, I'd bet that the Village itself would have never seen 7 figures free and clear in the bank after everyone else had to get their cut. It doesn't matter if you win 4 billion if it costs you 3.999 billion to get it in the big picture.

Said witness, who many of the angry mob have said people hated her and ran her off and would have 0 loyalty to the Mayor, states that he didn't persuade her.

Quiet Neighbor
The animosity and Catastrophe were painted by jealously and envy on the part of Mr. Phelan and his gang. Ms. Bury was just naive enough to buy into their venom.

@Brad
"The board seemed to work together much better before it all hit the fan in 2009."
That's when they got their orders from MM, downstate, to dump Tressler and Hire Querry & Harrow and his friends Paul O'Grady et al. So you see they had to come up with a reason to fire Tressler. That's why Phelan had LD hire:
Odelson - Bro. Rice Board w/ Tom $10,477.00
Querry & Harrow - Madigan and Phelan $6,392.00
Godfrey & Kahn- Phelan possibly MM $453,541.00
(for approximately 1 yr. of work, that had been done 1 or 2 times before, and.... for which Tom Phelan had done all of the digging of any dirt and handed it to Odelson!Odelson's report was used for G&K's report too)
BTW + an extra 25,000 for the written report =$478,571.00.
PS
The Mayoral position IS Part-Time.

I would not call it an angry mob.
It's a bunch of disgruntled, disappointed tax paying citizens of Oak Lawn.

I think that there were a number of things that came out of the G&K report that will be worthwhile to the Village in terms of things that can be fixed now to prevent future mistakes or missteps in lawsuits against the Village. There were plenty of things that could be called "wrong" in that report. What I was saying is that it seems to me that there's a group of passionate posters who defend the Dr. Bury (notice respectful name) position that these reports are catastrophic and is all the Mayors fault while at the same time blowing off a serious potential criminal charge much like you did. My comments are my opinion, and aren't driven by emotion nor are they to defend the Mayor. I don't have to defend him, he does just fine. I would like to allow people to hear my perspective and think hard about what is actually in the reports that isn't very similar to what can and does happen in any large business anywhere. Miscommunication, adapting to circumstances, assumptions, etc. While those things bit the Village in the rear, changing the players probably wouldn't have changed the game. The insurance issue wasn't the mayor's fault, and I believe that Mr. Phelan attended the 3rd party biller meetings not the Mayor. When *I* peel back the onion, I don't see conspiracy or blatant disregard. I do see that there are areas for improvement regarding accounting reporting and some needed solidarity amongst those who all want basically the same things. I said what I meant to say.

James,
On what page of the repot and which submission, ie. Pt 1A, pg #?

QC GordonKarr needs you go back to work.

James Manning, you have no idea how the Feds work. If you think their investigation is over, I would say you are sadly mistaken. They are taking their time and building their case. As much as I dislike Heilmann, he is right about what he is saying. Phelan will go down for this along with his actions with Fall on the Green. You claim Heilmann went to the Feds; what about Phelan wasting almost $500,000.00 on this stupid report with his friend to get Heilmann? Nothing has been done by either of these two elected officials that was in the best interest of the Village of Oak Lawn.

I concur. Dave has my vote along with all of neighbors.

Melissa, you certainly have a right to your opinion. But I do not agree that Phelan has been the one to cover up his dirty laundry. To me I read as his laundry has been sitting out on the clothesline this whole time. Where is the cover up? Unless I missed something all emails/correspondence has been provided by him. It is the mayor's emails between him and Tressler that have disappeared. Phelan does appear to be gruff. But where has he done something that hurt the village? Who has he hired or recommended that has cost the taxpayers money? What programs or new business has he championed that has cost the village? Fall on the Green under his watch blossomed into a huge money maker. Add in the "free beer" tickets for sake of argument and it still is a huge huge success. To me the mayor has a huge black mark due to his friends costing the village a lot of money. I do not see the same type of black marks against others.

Once you get Federal attention (ie, the ongoing current investigation), their eyes never stray off you very far.

Melissa: Please read the report. You have it all twisted. Ms. Paul’s talking to or not wanting to talk to G & K had nothing to do with this.

Mayor Heilmann presided over a closed meeting to discuss strategy to recoup losses for the Village. They were going for $1.9 MILLION dollars in damages just on this one case. After the meeting, Heilmann called his friends at Tressler to tip them off – even though he clearly knew as an experienced litigation attorney that it was inappropriate and damaging to the Village’s case to do so. Heilmann admits this. It hurt the Village’s case. It hurt the taxpayers because it took away the Village’s leverage. This was their largest claim against Tressler.

Heilmann clearly tampered with a key witness to hurt the Village, to hurt the taxpayers and help his friends. It doesn’t get any plainer than that. The Board wasn’t acting to screw the taxpayers and try to cover it up. Heilmann was.

He should resign in shame. It’s disgusting behavior for our Mayor. And it’s true – in black and white. Go read it before you slander others.

QC/Dave - your posts make no sense - they are like deranged ramblings. tell us in your own words. we already know you can cut and paste. speak your own mind.

QC, once again I post under my own name and picture. If Tom Phelan posts on here that's his business. How do I share lines with anyone?? Those quotes of mine are my words nobody else. I haven't even posted in a week. The investigation by the FBI means nothing until someone is charged with something. You are hiding your identity for some reason, I do not I usually use the term smoke and mirrors but some other people may use it too. I really don't care

Melissa, please read the report and don't just spit back what Heilmann is telling you to. The report shows how it happened. Truly his one phone to tamper with a witness call cost taxpayers $1.8 million in leverage.

As far as the billing goes, that's in the report too. It turns out what was reported to the board was actually a small percentage of what the legal bills actually were. It seems there was a dual accounting system that hid the actual legal costs from the board. Read it. Black and white.

As far as what Dr. Bury stands for, we have yet to hear Heilmann's platform either. He doesn't even have a website up or any position - he's too busy trying to make this incriminating document look like it's about someone else. Rumor is that his lack of campaign so far means that he is ready to resign.

Vote/Tom
You mean the more Truth and Facts that I put out there makes you look even worse.You can't stand hearing the Truth, can you? lol Go ahead and do your deflecting routine. You Look So Desparate on here. Accusations of "Conspiacy Theories" and stories Being "Nonsense" because they are True. Face it like a man, own it. You look evil, vindictive, bullying and Egotistical at the very Least, not Just Bad. Then again, being a nacissist You can't see it...but I will tell you.
Get Professional Help.
BTW, using a Village "Journal Watch on Psychiatry" subscription isn't getting the job done!!

vote aka Tom
The information for my Previous post came From Your Attorney Friend's Report. So for $500,000.00 ( Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ) You Consider the Report, Done By Your Friend's, "nonsense and conspiracy theories."? You're pathetic. What a piece of Work!!

Vote,
Sticks and stones may not break Phelan's bones, but bars and padded cells will confine him!

What is the obsession with Phelan?? We all know Dave hates him but this is getting a little strange?? Phelan is not the mayor or the manager, He didn't hire tressler,He didn't say I will run the villages legal affairs. He didn't interfere with potential witnesses Sorry my friend that's Daves mo Truth hurts......

Vote, I really don't understand the enjoyment that you (and others have) posting and implying that people are alias names for the Mayor or others, that people are posting at his direction. I can't comprehend how it helps your cause either to be honest, it hurts credibility. It is a news article not Facebook or a video game forum. If you gave valid arguments and didn't stoop to attacking posters personally, accusing people of being elected officials, among other childish behaviors, people might actually be encouraged to voice their opinions, even debate in a healthy and adult manner. I've seen people accused of slandering and in the same post seeing the poster slander 2-3x in one sentence. Ray Hanania wrote a great article, was a refreshing perspective, he was open and stated that he likes the Mayor and the only respect given is the same dribble you used to post as "QC??" I've seen a few good comments on both sides of the debate, most of it clouded by insane rambling and name calling. Truthfully I'd rather see no ability to comment than to have to get emailed irrelevant, inaccurate, desperate posts. If his article went the opposite way would you be saying "Did you write that for Ray Sandy??" I didn't think so. Can we get a grip on reality? I think it would make the Patch comments a better place.

Thanks to Ray Hanania for the refreshing post and honest perspective and for whatsfairisfair for linking it.