Champaign Co. (ECWd) -, The Mahomet Township Road District Highway Commissioner Chris Doenitz appears to have been put on notice by the Attorney General Public Integrity Bureau (AG PIB) after numerous alleged bidding violations took place. A request for all bid publications between May 1, 2019, through...
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) - A Federal Grand Jury has issued another subpoena to the Village of Dolton requesting records of Mayor Tiffany Henyard and others, as part of an ongoing federal investigation into the activities of Henyard while she has been serving a village mayor and...
Champaign Co., Ill. (ECWd)- Over the years we have exposed more fraud related to handwritten timecards than imaginable. Time Card Tuesday comes to mind as one of the worst payroll issues we have seen which was by the Algonquin Township Road District. When a push for electronic...
Shelbyville, Ill. (ECWd) - After last month's county board approval of a cash-rent lease (more on that later) of the Shelby County Farm to the alleged highest bidder, a private farmer, both the county and the farmer entered into and signed a lease for the property. We...
Mahomet Township, Ill. (ECWd) - Mahomet Township's attorney, Mr. Michael A. Kraft, thinks he can demand that previously provided records under FOIA be destroyed, those emails deleted, and prohibit the FOIA requester from providing those records to anyone else. See his email: As set forth in my email...
Cook Co., Ill. (ECWd) - Village of Dolton and Thornton Township employees and officials might consider taking advantage of this pilot self-reporting program offered by the United States Attorney, Northern District of Illinois. It is set to expire on March 15, 2025. CHICAGO — The U.S. Attorney’s Office...
Sangamaon Co. (ECWd) - Village of Rochester, Illinois Mayor Joseph Suerdieck provided a letter to the Editor of the State Journal-Register in relation to the settlement in a lawsuit brought against the Village after Suerdieck denied a liquor license to a local business. We wrote about...
Dolton, Ill. (ECWd) - Preliminary results of the primary election in Dolton are in: Everyone on Tiffany Henyard's team were wiped out. Jason House earned 87.91% - Henyard got 12.09% Similar results with the Clerk and Trustees. ...
CLARKSDALE, Miss., Feb. 25, 2025 ECWd comment: We republished the censored editorial via the Way Back Machine (here) and believe the Judge in this case should be sanctioned for ordering the censoring of this newspaper. Press Release from FIRE.ORG: CLARKSDALE, Miss., Feb. 25, 2025 — After receiving widespread...
Winnebago Co., Ill. (ECWd) - This is another interesting election issue in Pecatonica Township where it is alleged that a candidate for township supervisor filed his petitions to run for the office, someone objected to his petitions, there was an initial electoral board meeting, then the...
