Firm got city of Chicago deals after hiring lobbyist linked to indicted Rahm aide’s deputy - Chicago Way & Corruption

PHOTO: James T. Raussen, the city of Chicago's managing deputy comptroller.

An insurance company got more than $2.5 million in contracts from the city of Chicago after hiring an Ohio lobbyist with ties to one of indicted former city Comptroller Amer Ahmad’s top aides at City Hall, a Chicago Sun-Times investigation has found.

James T. Raussen, who stayed on as the city’s managing deputy comptroller after Ahmad quit his city post in July, was a Republican state representative in Ohio before leaving office in 2008 to work as an insurance administrator for then-Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland, a Democrat.