IN CHICAGO, THEY EVEN DEFRAUD THE FEDS! Cause of Action’s Daniel Epstein tells The Washington Examiner he and his intrepid investigators are determined to get to the bottom of what he calls the “Chicago-style fraud” perpetrated maybe as far back as 1982 by that city’s transit agency. It has to do with how the locals count mileage used to determine how much federal money the Chicago Transit Authority gets. Can you guess who was CTA’s board chairman from 1995 to 2003? Some people refer to her as “the other side of Obama’s brain.”