• Where’s the “honest services” law when we need it? Roger Walker Jr. has inadvertently become a new poster child for what’s wrong with state government, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune. Walker earns nearly $86,000 a year as a member of the Illinois Prisoner Review Board, along with benefits that include health insurance. But he’s worked only one day in 17 months. Why? “I’m on sick leave,” he says. Gov. Quinn appointed him, and also has the power to remove him for neglect of duty.
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