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Friday, September 22, 2006
FAA Slaps Chicago Over Midnight Raid On Helpless Airport
Chicago will pay a $33,000 fine for illegally tearing up Meigs Field airport without proper notification. And the city will have to repay $1 million of airport funds that Mayor Richard M. Daley illegally diverted from O'Hare and Midway airports to give to the destruction contractors.
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Technorati Tags: aviation, chicago, meigs, airport, faa, aopa
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Technorati Tags: aviation, chicago, meigs, airport, faa, aopa
2 Comments:
33,000? Oh man that will teach him!
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Read the article. That was just the fine, and that was controlled by regulation. The city is also on the hook for court costs and lawyer fees, over $1 million.
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