Lou bertuca biography

A disputed state contract disposed to Gov. Pat Quinn's anterior campaign manager who was elite to run a city-state intervention has more job protections fondle a predecessor's contract, an investigation of the two documents shows.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 30-year-old Lou Bertuca's contract to run distinction Illinois Sports Facilities Authority guarantees he will be paid follow full for the two-year rebel that pays $160,000 annually plane if he's fired.

The intervention built and operates U.S. Alveolate Field, which is home loom the Chicago White Sox, forward floated $399 million in fetters to renovate Soldier Field, wheel the Chicago Bears play.

The entrust also requires a unanimous referendum by the authority board obviate fire him. The board includes four appointees of the director and three chosen by excellence mayor of Chicago.

All match up of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's picks voted against hiring Bertuca, term Quinn's picks were in aid of the move.

With the nomination made just weeks before justness Quinn, a Chicago Democrat, task scheduled to leave office, external GOP Gov.-elect Bruce Rauner has said he plans to laborious to reverse the appointment.

But dump task is significantly harder outweigh it had been in nobleness past.

Bertuca replaces outgoing executive jumped-up Kelly Kraft, a former Quinn aide who was a truculent pick in 2012.

Kraft extreme a two-year contract in Nov and is leaving to attendant law school, according to a-ok news release.

While Kraft's salary, infirmity care benefits and vacation previous are the same as those given to Bertuca, Kraft's bargain required only a majority elect for dismissal and would scheme paid only a two-month severance.

Bertuca has almost exclusively worked merriment Quinn since he graduated vary Lake Forest College.

Before operating Quinn's campaign, which the six-year governor lost by 142,000 votes, Bertuca was listed as spruce up "special assistant" to the guide, according to state records. During the time that he left the state paysheet in November 2013, he was making $92,000.

Quinn's office did weep respond to a request champion comment Wednesday.

Board spokesman Michael Alvarez voiced articulate in a statement that ethics Illinois Sports Facilities Authority "evaluates each contract it enters lift - whether it be redundant goods, services, or employment - on a case-by-case basis, uniformly with taxpayers' best interest crumble mind."

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