“I am also aware of trustees being approached by members of the Chicago Teachers Union who want us as trustees to hire former Madigan staffers who are now contract lobbyists,” Jeffery Blackwell, president of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund Board of Trustees said. “Let me be clear. We are not in the business as fiduciaries of hiding Madigan lobbyists at the fund under the guise of a [request for proposal].”

“I am also aware of trustees being approached by members of the Chicago Teachers Union who want us as trustees to hire former Madigan staffers who are now contract lobbyists,” Jeffery Blackwell, president of the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund Board of Trustees said. “Let me be clear. We are not in the business as fiduciaries of hiding Madigan lobbyists at the fund under the guise of a [request for proposal].”

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