Chicago Comptroller Indicted in Ohio

We have no particular training in journalism, mostly because we didn't feel like taking that route as a career. But we do have a career of more than a few years being taught to see things that others miss, questioning strange coincidences and sensing bullshit.  

So when we pointed out a few things on 03 July that smelled funny surrounding Rahm's Comptroller, and TrueNewsUSA highlighted his shady associations with terrorism, and especially his background in Ohio, we had no idea that this was on the way:

• When Amer Ahmad abruptly resigned as city comptroller about three weeks ago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel heaped praise on his hand-picked aide for helping him "reform government" in Chicago.
  
  On Thursday, Ahmad was indicted in Ohio on federal corruption charges in what prosecutors described as a more than $500,000 kickback scheme involving state investment business while he served as deputy treasurer and chief financial officer there.
  
  Emanuel spokeswoman Sarah Hamilton declined to answer specific questions about Ahmad, but she issued a statement saying the administration did not know about the investigation until the indictment was announced.

So the media, Rahm's media, failed to notice anything funny, odd or out-of-place about this guy's background, any one of a number of red flags that should have at least rated a question of Chicago's (and Rahm's) desire to hire him for the sensitive job of Comptroller.

Anyone else think that's kind of sad?