(The following appeared on the Chicago Tribune website on February 12, 2011.)
CHICAGO — Two reports issued Friday by consultants hired by Metra in the wake of the Phil Pagano scandal criticize several past management actions at the commuter rail agency and place blame for many of those problems on its longtime executive director.
The management review by the accounting firm Blackman Kallick LLP says many actions Pagano undertook during his recent years in charge of Metra “were determined to be at odds with Metra’s established policies and procedures.”
Pagano, 60, committed suicide by stepping in front of a Metra train May 7, just as Metra’s board was poised to fire him.
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