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Article: D'Angelo: Out of Daley circle 'We have a good relationship, but we don't see each other socially'
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 16, 2002
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For a man who has hobnobbed with Chicago mayors for decades and
enjoyed extraordinary access to the halls of power, the last two
years must have been excruciating for Oscar D'Angelo.
After a 36-year friendship with Mayor Daley, D'Angelo has been
frozen out of the mayor's inner circle following one of the biggest
scandals of Daley's 13-year administration.
D'Angelo embarrassed the mayor--not once, but twice in the spring
of 2000.
First, he agreed to make $10,500 in interest-free loans to deputy
chief of staff Terry Teele and Teele's brother, forcing the
resignation of the mayor's infrastructure czar, governmental alter-
ego and close friend.
A few weeks later, Daley was even more wounded when ...