Cook County taxpayers can be forgiven for feeling as though too many county workers were busy concocting schemes to defraud the federal government instead of focusing on the tasks they were paid to do. It might even bring up pained memories of the 1960 Summerdale scandal, when eight Chicago Police officers conspired to loot North Side stores while they were on duty.
Authorities are right to investigate these alleged schemes, and they should not stop until they uncover every last one of them.
