As an Illinois resident and public interest and consumer protection lawyer for over 25 years, Clint has been fighting for working people, against government and corporate corruption and abuses.
- In a battle that has continued from 1983 to the present, Clint took on the City of Chicago, for grabbing pension money for its own benefit, made the City pay back millions of dollars, improving the solvency of the pension systems. When the City retaliated by threatening to cut off retirees from their healthcare coverage, he went to court again, and has forced the City to keep that coverage alive as promised to those retirees.
- Currently, Clint is challenging the legality of the City’s 75 year parking meter lease/sale deal, as a bad deal for taxpayers, and one that violates Illinois’ constitution.
- On the corporate side, Clint has made corporations repay for their wrongdoing to workers and shareholders. He doubled the recovery for employees of one company, whose management stole the workers’ 95% ownership for less than half of fair value. He launched the global civil RICO case against another corporation, and recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for the investors in hundreds of limited partnerships that had been unfairly structured to defraud investors. He recently recovered millions of dollars for the shareholders of one company whose management backdated stock options to give insiders a special deal, and for shareholders of another NYSE-listed company that collapsed from rampant book-cooking, costing investors hundreds of millions of dollars as well.
- Clint forced school districts to open up their meetings for parents of kids with special needs.
- Clint’s succeeded in changing the election system: thrown out circulator restrictions that limited ballot access, forced election judges to promptly notify absentee voters when their ballots are rejected to afford them an opportunity to defend their ballot. The result of that case is that every absentee voter who has challenged their disqualification has had their vote count. And, when the challengers to previously-convicted Chicago aldermen ran out of funds, his team took over their challenge, and brought the matter all the way to the Illinois Supreme Court; not only knocking them off the ballot, but ensuring that Illinois local officials who sell their office cannot regain their office, only to resell again.
- Clint founded and funded the Center for Open Government, a law clinic at IIT-Chicago Kent College of Law, that litigates Open Government issues for citizens, without charge. Read more about this here.
Clint could not stand by while the current powers controlling our state posture politically, without actually reforming the out-of-control spending, and the huge deficit that we are leaving for our children to pay.
Clint is proud of the record he’s developed, going “up against the big guys” and believes we need a strong, independent Comptroller who can stand up to the special interests in Springfield.
