In February 2005 a grand jury indicted Sorich for devising a scheme to "provide financial benefits, in the form of city jobs and promotions, in exchange for campaign work." As part of this scheme, it charged, Sorich and other officials "corrupted the city's personnel process" by awarding "jobs and promotions" to preselected candidates "through sham and rigged interviews."

At the Sorich trial Kozicki, then in the buildings department, testified that as managing deputy commissioner he had altered 19-year-old Andrew Ryan's interview rating to ensure that Ryan scored high enough to get a building inspector's job for which other applicants were more qualified. Andrew Ryan is the son of Tom Ryan, secretary-treasurer of Carpenters Local 13, a union that was a major financial contributor to Daley's 2003 reelection campaign.