Ben Bradley on Unplanned Interviews, Bribed Mayors & Blagojevich | The Pat McGann Show Ep. 55
Ben Bradley has spent the better part of three decades getting Chicago politicians to explain things they clearly did not want to explain. How do you get a mayor's office to admit a deal is coming? You file the paperwork, and then you show up.
The WGN investigative reporter and Emmy winner joins Pat and Dwayne Kennedy to talk about learning the trade from Chicago TV legend Chuck Goudie and building a career out of Freedom of Information Act requests. They get into taxpayer-funded credit cards, a red light camera bribery scheme that took down a string of suburban officials, and why some…
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