Milk money: Clout-heavy family got $162 million in contracts - Chicago Sun-Times

Geez does Daniel T. Frawley have a Chicago Way story to tell. No way this guy should be put on ice. He needs to be sat down with a videographer and the whole story on the Chicago Way told.

Frawley's connections to the CPS Milk story in today's STMilk money: Clout-heavy family got $162 million in contracts - Chicago Sun-Times:

Family feud

Frank McMahon’s first cousin, Daniel T. Frawley, filed a “whistleblower” lawsuit in federal court last July accusing McMahon Food, C & C and Krystal of actually being run by men, even though the companies are certified as being women-owned and -operated. As a result, Frawley says McMahon Food was able to obtain multimillion-dollar deals with Cook County government, including supplying dairy goods to the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center.

McMahon Food also has a $2.5 million-a-year subcontracting deal to supply milk to the Cook County Jail.

Frawley, 60, of Westchester, is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last year to a $4.4 million bank fraud.

Frank McMahon’s attorneys say Frawley’s claims are “not true” and amount to “an attempt to once again defraud someone out of something.”


Both McMahon Food and Windy City Electric were part of the CPS inspector general’s investigation of milk contracts in 1999. The companies refused to comply with that office’s subpoenas, prompting a lawsuit by the Board of Education, then headed by Chico. A judge ordered the McMahon companies to comply with the subpoenas. The McMahons appealed but then dropped the case.

The inspector general wanted to bar McMahon Food from future CPS business, but the school system’s law department refused.