Tim novak sun times biography

Discontent is the constant companion of investigative reporters. They set out on their campaigns because a wrong needs to be righted, and when the campaign ends it&#;s rarely been righted enough.

Los Angeles County government reporter.

Los Angeles County government reporter.

City Hall lobbyist repays $96, in tax breaks Sun-Times showed he never should have been given.

Tim Novak is an investigative reporter exposing government corruption in the state of Illinois, Cook County and the city of Chicago.

The Chicago Sun-Times was founded in through a merger of the Chicago Sun and the Daily Times.

In January , after a six-month investigation written by Tim Novak and Steve Warmbir, the paper broke the story of the Hired Truck Program scandal.

In Tim Novak of the Sun-Times was looking into a secret partnership in a sewer-inspection company
that Patrick Daley, the mayor&#;s son, had set up with a cousin, Robert Vanecko. Novak decided to find out what the rest of that generation was up to.

Robert&#;s kid brother R.J., it turned out, had been mixed up in some way in a fatal altercation outside a Division Street bar back in A year-old, David Koschman, had been slugged so hard he hit the pavement unconscious and died 11 days later.

R.J. Vanecko was never arrested, but someone had tipped the media that he&#;d shown up for a police lineup.

Tim Novak.

Novak called Koschman&#;s mother, Nanci Koschman, in Mount Prospect. The guy who did it ran away, she told Novak bitterly. But she didn&#;t want to rehash her son&#;s death—she&#;d opened up