Shelby Co. (ECWd) - Shelby County Bailiff Rick Hoadley appears to have crossed the line with his recent communication to a County Official. According to the email we received this morning, Hoadley appears to think he has some type of authority to silence people in a County...
Illinois (ECWd) - Illinois Candidate for the United States Senate, Allison Salinas (Pekin, IL.), has been sued in Circuit Court, Fayette County, Illinois. The basics of this complaint is that the Salinas campaign employed campaign staff who they never paid, sold tickets to an event tp be...
Illinois (ECWd) - Every election cycle we see an increase in communications related to local government candidate malfeasance. We appreciate that there are more and more people taking steps to expose those asking for their votes. Out of the dozens of tips over the last few weeks,...
Sangamon Co. (ECWd) - Over a year ago we began investigating self-dealing by the Rochester Fire Protection District Chief, John Archer, who also owns A.E.C., a local fire equipment company. Numerous articles can be found at this link. Our findings resulted in a criminal investigation that...
Illinois (ECWd) - We recently published this article regarding a county government's power as it relates to borrowing money. Within that article was the video from the meeting in which justifications were made for borrowing, however, none of those cited the applicable statute as was pointed...
McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Even after our extensive exposure of payroll malfeasance during the Bob Miller family dynasty operation knows as the Algonquin Township Road District, the local State's Attorney did nothing to hold anyone accountable. Many correctly pointed out that we are not accountants in...
Shelby Co. IL. (ECWd) - We exposed the illegal gun sales by the Shelby County Sheriff over a year ago, including proving that the accounting of the money did not balance with the public records. As we awaited action that never came from County Board members...
Bloomington, IL. (ECWd) - We first exposed what we called a police coverup in Bloomington in this article. From that first exposure and after it was brought to the Mayor's attention during public comment at a recent meeting, we had to publish several more articles to...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County State's Attorney was asked during the last county board meeting if the board had the power to finance the farming operation. Her response was common for a criminal prosecutor rather than a well-versed local government law attorney. We say...
Algonquin Township, IL. (ECWd) - This morning, a McHenry County Judge Granted our Motion for Partial Summary Judgment and determined that Algonquin Township violated the Freedom Of Information Act in regards to an FOIA request dated June 2, 2018, which was seeking communications between the township...
