Good clean fund? Not if charities, politics mix

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Good clean fund? Not if charities, politics mix
April 12, 2005
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When investigators from the Better Government Association began to look under the veneer of the 17th Ward Democratic Organization, probing questionable political contributions from Chicago Housing Authority contractors, they uncovered something they hadn't expected to find. What they learned, alarmingly, was that nonprofit groups, churches and other tax-exempt organizations in Illinois were breaking federal law."