beefer: Chicago?

[aallan at AOL.COM]

>From John Kass's online column "Daleyites have pep in their step over leaked list" today, on the Chicago Tribune website:

. . .

Now Daley and his people don't have to speculate as to who's been talking to the FBI. They had pieced much of it together from court documents, but now they don't have to guess. City workers who were merely suspected have now been formally exposed, frozen out of small talk at the water cooler and at meetings, labeled with that juicy Chicago political word for a cooperating witness:

A beefer.

. . .

- Allan Metcalf