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Article: CTA parts `loans' probed // Repair firm got free equipment use
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 20, 1987
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A CTA vendor was given more than $10,000 in new inventory last
year from the transit agency's stockroom shelves, returning the
material only after an investigation of CTA contract irregularities
came to light several weeks ago.
The unusual arrangement with Calumet Armature Electric is one of
several dealings between the company and the agency's Skokie repair
shop that have come under scrutiny by CTA internal investigators,
according to sources familiar with the investigation.
Calumet, a Riverdale firm, repairs L car electric motors for the
CTA under a $435,000 annual contract.
CTA investigators also are looking into the role that George
Haenisch, demoted last week from his post as ...