BLOOM v. MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES ANNUITY

No. 1-02-0236.

791 N.E.2d 1254 (2003)

339 Ill. App.3d 807

274 Ill.Dec. 843

Lawrence S. BLOOM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES' ANNUITY AND BENEFIT FUND OF CHICAGO, and Phoebe S. Selden, Judith C. Rice, John K. Gibson, Joseph Malatesta and Peter Brejnak, Trustees of the Municipal Employees' Annuity and Benefit Fund of Chicago, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division.

June 9, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kubasiak, Fylstra, Reizen & Rottunno, P.C., Chicago (Daniel J. Kubasiak, Ellen Chapelle, John C. Anderson, of counsel), for Appellant.

Frederick P. Heiss and William A. Marovitz, Chicago, for Appellees.


Justice McNULTY delivered the opinion of the court:

Chicago aldermen are among the wide variety of Illinois municipal employees subject to state statutory provisions that disqualify them from pension benefit eligibility if they are convicted of a felony relating to, arising out of or connected with their employment. Plaintiff Lawrence S. Bloom, a former Chicago alderman, pleaded guilty to the charge of filing a false federal tax return, a felony. Since, in the course...

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