The Buck Stops...

...just short of Huberman evidently:

• The No. 2 man at Chicago's 911 emergency center has resigned his $149,832-a-year job to avoid being fired for alleged contract irregularities that cost taxpayers $2.25 million.

  Jim Argiropoulos, who once served as acting executive director of the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, quietly cleared out his desk over the weekend. The resignation takes effect later this month after time-due is burned.

• Without a contract to justify the console purchase -- and apparently unwilling to wade through the normal bidding process -- Argiropoulos allegedly ordered underlings to find a way to get it done. As a result, a phony voucher was issued for 18,000 radio accessories under an existing Motorola contract.
  

• Huberman has accepted responsibility for what the inspector general has called a "significant management failure" that set the stage for the contracting scheme.

  Sources said he has also ordered Adrienne Hiegel, his top deputy at OEMC at the time, to take a 30-day suspension.

Hiegel is still working for Huberman at the Chicago Public Schools, even though she seems to be hip deep in the slime.

And the "Golden Boy" lives to steal another paycheck after his people stole $2.5 million.