Orland Park, Ill. (ECWd) –
The Orland Fire Protection District entered into a contract with a “consultant” to provide diversity consulting to the district at a rate of $3000 per month for one year, apparently renewing until canceled, starting in June of 2017 (See pages 9-11).
In May of 2018, the consultant, Irma “Ratliff” Holloway, the owner of her now-dissolved company, IRH Developments, Inc., was indicted by a federal grand jury with two counts of defrauding lending institutions of around $5 million.
Holloway pleaded Guilty to Count 2 of the indictment and was sentenced to 24 months in the federal penitentiary, to begin on October 28, 2020, with 5 years of supervised release after serving time in the penitentiary, and restitution of nearly $4 million.
The Orland Fire Protection District continued paying her invoices for November 2020 through April of 2021 – six months @ $3000 per month, while she was serving time in a federal penitentiary. Totaling $18,000 (see pages 25-30).
Invoices were sent to the district each of those months and were signed off on by the Fire Chief. We do not know if she sent the invoices from prison or if someone else submitted them on her behalf.
The district made no attempt to recover those funds, at least no attempt is located in their meeting minutes.
Who deposited those checks?
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