It was this Blog that first presented the scoop that outed State Representative John Aguilar as a thief and a charlatan for being employed by IUPUI in Indianapolis while representing NWI and making sure that NWI was short changed in higher education money. In that role he is a disgrace to the office that he holds and to the Hispanic community he claims to represent.
It came out today officially in an audit by Indiana University that he was paid "bribery" money to steer funds in the legislature toward IUPUI's Labor Studies program. This in exchange for $68,500 payment to himself plus any tuition reduction his children may or did get from the University. He performed this "task" all the while selling NWI, his constituency, short in their funding for higher education dollars.
The only State university in his district, Purdue University Calumet, budget was reduced by $500,000 a year while he was being paid under the table by Indiana University. In a letter to me he specifically denied that he had ever worked for Indiana University (like he never summered in Munster). The simple fact is the John Aguilera sold his public job and his heritage to the highest bidder.
It is now clear that, at best, the man has the ethics of a leech, and at worst, he is an incompetent, thieving, low-life politician. Anyone he endorses, i.e Candelaria for his old position as State Rep., should be soundly rejected and judged by the friends she keeps. Further he should never ever be welcome back to East Chicago as anything but a street sweeper for what he has done to the future of the kids there. If he is even allowed to run for Mayor shame on the people of East Chicago.
I have always known that he was the most useless politician in NWI. He would sell all of us for thirty pieces of silver, assuming he can count, which is a big if.
Remember for scoops on thieves in NWI this is the place. You will never be mislead.
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