Bellmont Employee Terminated After Public Outrage –
Bellmont, Ill. (ECWd) – We were informed by a village trustee last night that the Bellmont employee hired by the mayor shortly after he was released from IDOC has been…
Mayor Hires Child Sex Offender After His Release From IDOC –
Bellmont, Ill. (ECWd) – The Village of Bellmont is in Wabash County, in southern Illinois, and has a population of around 247 people. Mayor Linda Johnson decided to hire Matthew…
Embattled Village President Finally Resigned –
Bellmont, IL. (ECWd) – Gary Lance finally resigned as Village President of Bellmont, Illinois. Lance was the Village President who was accused of using village equipment on his personal property…
AG: Village of Bellmont Violated Open Meetings Law –
Bellmont, IL. (ECWd) – “. . . the Public Access Bureau concludes that the Village of Bellmont (Village) Board of Trustees (Board) violated OMA in connection with its April 13,…
Illinois Elected Officials Behaving Badly –
…disabled, his official mayoral email account disabled, and village trustee had assumed the office of acting mayor and attempts made at claiming he abandoned his office. Village of Bellmont: Village…
Watchdogs in 2020 – Some of our highlights:
…Mayor arrested again (here) Algonquin Township sanctioned by Court – ordered to pay ECWd’s attorney fees (here) Edgar County Sheriff’s employee caught padding her payroll (here) Bellmont Mayor Gary Lance’s…
Judge Sanctioned Bellmont Mayor Gary Lance For Patently False Testimony –
Wabash Co, IL. (ECWd) – Village President (Mayor) of Bellmont, IL., Gary Lance, had previously filed sworn affidavits against five Bellmont, IL. residents in an attempt at securing Orders of…
Wabash County Man Arrested For Threatening Public Official –
…8, 2020, Cook sent a message to Jon King, a Trustee in the Village of Bellmont, Illinois, which King took as a threat and later reported it. The message read:…
Our Shameless Solicitation For Donations –
…to us and to Rep Bailey (here) exposed Fireman’s theft of public funds – he was charged (here) – this was also covered by WAND’s I-TEAM (here) exposed Bellmont’s Mayor…
Bellmont Mayor in Court: Confesses to Perjury and That He Lied For Fun
Wabash Co. (ECWd) – We outlined Bellmont Mayor Gary Lance lying to the court in this article, which we never imagined could get worse for Mayor Lance. Yesterday’s hearing on…