Ex-city official helped bidder E-mail helps Des Plaines learn who worked for firm vying for hotel deals.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February, 2006 | by Boykin, Ames

Byline: Ames Boykin Daily Herald Staff Writer Des Plaines' former economic development director, who resigned two years ago after his criminal record came to light, consulted for a company that nearly won an exclusive deal with the city to build two hotels. William Schneider Jr., who left the city after four years in 2004 amid revelations of a past fraud conviction, worked for Madison, Wis.-based Raymond Management Co.

as that company angled to build two hotels in the city's special taxing area at Mannheim and Higgins roads near Allstate Arena. But city officials say they never talked to Schneider and that the Schneider link had no bearing on the decision Feb. 9 to bypass Raymond's proposal and ask for more developers' plans. Some aldermen said they...