Clout pays for career criminal/felon Juan Elias who heads 1st Ward Ald. Joe Moreno’s political organization - City job safe, despite felony convictions, after Quinn pardon

When Gov. Pat Quinn pardoned a politically connected city of Chicago health department official in late 2011, he didn’t just erase Juan Elias’ rap sheet, which included convictions for marijuana possession, burglary and vote fraud. The pardon also kept Elias, who heads 1st Ward Ald. Joe Moreno’s political organization, safely in the $78,828-a-year city job that he got after after failing to disclose on his job application that he had a criminal past.

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