That Sanchez - He Dirty

Yet another conviction of a Machine politician:

• Former city Streets and Sanitation boss Al Sanchez has called himself an “operational guy” who makes “lemonade out of lemons,” but a federal jury handed him a bagful of lemons today, finding the longtime former city official guilty of four of seven counts of corruption.

  “Today is not a fair day,” Sanchez told reporters.

No word on all those folks who weren't hired on whether they thought it had been a "fair" year or two.

Sanchez's family isn't happy:

• But Sanchez's family said he was a scapegoat for higher-ranking players. Asked who Sanchez was taking the fall for, his mother, Mary Sanchez, replied, "The main guy is up there, at City Hall."
  
  "The fat cat," said sister Cynthia Ramirez, adding that her brother "was used."

Well Cynthia, you've got a couple of weeks, maybe a month or two, to convince your brother to tell the truth about who did the hiring, who was referred to him, who pulled the strings. We're sure plenty of Federal people would be more than eager to listen. Otherwise, your brother will just be another in a long line of patsies who lie down in front of a bus driven by Daley. And we have no sympathy for someone who won't help themselves.