Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q14687892> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 35 of
35
with 100 triples per page.
- Q14687892 subject Q449772.
- Q14687892 subject Q8390195.
- Q14687892 subject Q9445229.
- Q14687892 abstract "The Mirage Tavern was a drinking establishment at 731 N. Wells St. in Chicago purchased by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977 to investigate widespread allegations of official corruption and shakedowns visited on small businesses by city officials. The journalists used hidden cameras to help ensure that city inspectors caught accepting payoffs for ignoring safety hazards were all properly documented.In 1978, the Sun-Times broke the story in a 25-part series that documented the many abuses and crimes committed at the tavern, which was shaken down repeatedly by state and local officials. The series was initially nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for general reporting, but the Pulitzer board decided not to award the Sun-Times when editor Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post led an attack on the grounds that the reporters used undercover reporting, a form of deception, to report the story.The Mirage gave rise to major reforms including city code revisions, new procedures in city inspections and investigations at federal, state and city levels. The IRS sent in 20 agents to take a closer look at tax fraud by cash businesses. The Illinois Department of Revenue formed a new investigative unit: the Mirage Audit Unit. An ongoing federal investigation, spurred by the Mirage findings, managed indictments of a third of the city’s electrical inspectors in 1978, with more indictments to come later.The project was overseen by editors James Hoge, Ralph Otwell, Stuart H. Loory and Joseph Reilly. In May 1977, journalist Pam Zekman and Better Government Association chief investigator Bill Recktenwald purchased the tavern under the aliases Mr. and Mrs. Ray Patterson. Reporter Zay N. Smith, who wrote the series, and BGA investigator Jeff Allen posed as the bartender and manager, respectively. Sun-Times photographers Gene Pesek and Jim Frost were in charge of photographing the tavern's activities from a hidden section of the tavern built over the washrooms.Corrupt practices ran the gamut from shakedowns to tax fraud. The shakedown amounts were small, typically less than $100, as the reporters learned of what they later called "the supermarket approach to graft--low prices, high volume" that inspectors tended to prefer as the safest way of doing illegal business.Among others, a city electrical inspector agreed to overlook the tavern's faulty wiring. A fire department lieutenant agreed to sign off on the tavern's grand opening, despite the loose electrical wiring hanging from rafters and a basement piled high with trash against regulations. A city health inspector ignored maggots and sink drains that emptied down to the basement floor. A state liquor inspector ignored fruit flies in the liquor.(The tavern quietly corrected all its code violations, on its own, after the shakedown inspections.)Also reported were illegal kickbacks from pinball operators and jukebox operators (A.A. Swingtime Music Company), as well as tax skimming. Philip J. Barasch, a local accountant, gave the new owners of the bar extensive lessons on how to keep two sets of account books to skim profits without paying tax and advised them exactly what time of day inspectors showed up and how much their shakedowns would typically cost. He also suggested including his business card with any payoffs to help smooth the shakedown process. The only officials he warned against bribing were the police, noting that "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around every month, like flies, looking for a payoff". The Mirage, after hearing Barash's tax advice, hired six more accountants specializing in small cash businesses and was counseled by all of them to commit fraud.The tavern, which has had more than one owner since the Sun-Times investigation, is now known, after a number of improvements, as the Brehon Pub.".
- Q14687892 thumbnail Modern-Day_Brehon-Mirageo.png?width=300.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q13426746.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q16106858.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q166032.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q16951402.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q449772.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q46525.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q577417.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q706007.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q8067532.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q8390195.
- Q14687892 wikiPageWikiLink Q9445229.
- Q14687892 name "Mirage Tavern".
- Q14687892 point "41.8956 -87.634119".
- Q14687892 type Place.
- Q14687892 type Restaurant.
- Q14687892 type ArchitecturalStructure.
- Q14687892 type Building.
- Q14687892 type Location.
- Q14687892 type Place.
- Q14687892 type Restaurant.
- Q14687892 type Thing.
- Q14687892 type SpatialThing.
- Q14687892 type Q11707.
- Q14687892 type Q41176.
- Q14687892 comment "The Mirage Tavern was a drinking establishment at 731 N. Wells St. in Chicago purchased by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1977 to investigate widespread allegations of official corruption and shakedowns visited on small businesses by city officials.".
- Q14687892 label "Mirage Tavern".
- Q14687892 lat "41.8956".
- Q14687892 long "-87.634119".
- Q14687892 depiction Modern-Day_Brehon-Mirageo.png.
- Q14687892 name "Mirage Tavern".