Tapes Destroyed

Gee, anyone think that the Pension Board got tipped off about an investigation?

• Daley said he did not think his nephew had traded on his family connections to drum up funding for DV Urban Realty, which he founded three years ago and quit this week.
  
  Investigators have sought recordings of closed-door pension board meetings that might shed some light on how Vanecko got the business, but the Tribune has learned that at least one pension fund decided late last year to destroy such recordings. City Comptroller Steve Lux made the motion to delete tapes of private police pension board discussions, possibly including conversations about DV Urban, under a state law that allows deletion of old records.

Yes, the only thing that might have cleared Vanecko and the assorted Pension Board representatives from any appearance of impropriety were conveniently destroyed in the fall/winter of 2008.

Of course, the tapes might not have cleared anybody at all. And there's a Federal subpoena floating around with all sorts of uncomfortable questions that are going to have to be answered at some point. And the Feds are notoriously unhappy when they have to rely on recall and faulty memories that seem to lead them astray. That's when the contempt and lying charges start appearing. If we we're the Pension Board members, we'd be hiring a whole shitload of attorneys about now.