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Top Rahm Aide Set Herself Up For Sweet CTA Pension

Top Rahm Aide Set Herself Up For Sweet CTA Pension
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Senior Editor, DNAinfo.com Chicago

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Mayoral Chief of Staff Theresa Mintle helped enact a special early-retirement plan at her former employer--the Chicago Transit Authority--that entitled her to a $65,000 annual pension she wouldn't have qualified for otherwise.

Official records obtained in a joint probe by Crain's and the Better Government Assn. indicate Ms. Mintle is eligible for a pension of $64,908.53 at age 65, based on just eight years of service at the agency. The early-retirement sweetener passed in 2008, when she was chief of staff to then-CTA board Chairman Carole Brown. Ms. Mintle resigned from that job last spring to assume similar duties for Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

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