Sun-Times Investigative Reporter Chris Fusco

It turns out CTA board members — all of them political appointees who worked only part time — each came away with five-figure pensions that have cost the public transit agency a total of more than $3 million over 10 years. In 2014, the most recent year for which records were available, the CTA paid $330,000 into its board pension fund and doled out $329,744 in pension payments to 19 board retirees or their survivors. Chicago Sun-Times Investigative Reporter Chris Fusco joined John to talk about his expose on pensions.