A questionable decision seven years ago by a politically connected University of Illinois at Chicago administrator has led to the reinstatement of a violent felon to a $73,985-a-year on-campus job.
Besides having to put Thomas J. Morano back on the payroll, the state university is on the hook for legal fees and back pay amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Fired six years ago, Morano, 59, went back to work June 3 as an auto mechanic foreman at a UIC garage.
He got his job back despite having been convicted of attempted murder for shooting a man in the chest, leaving him paralyzed. Records show he also lied about his criminal record on university job applications and claimed to be off work sick when he actually was locked up on felony gun charges for which he was later convicted.
Morano’s reinstatement followed an Illinois Appellate Court ruling last year that the university had to take him back because a UIC facilities executive made a “last-chance” deal with him in 2006 to let him keep his job, even after Morano’s second felony conviction.
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