Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first exposed the questionable record destruction requests in this article. We stated we were reaching out to the Secretary of State Local Records commission regarding possible improper destruction of records and now have the Commission's response to our inquiry. Media Questions raised...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County board held a special meeting for the purpose of receiving the forensic audit report of the Sheriff's office payroll. As part of that presentation, the auditor spoke about destroyed records, which we covered in this article. After hearing the auditor...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Board held its regular meeting last night which can be viewed below. Notable actions or inactions include the following: Approved custom farming resolution for the county's poor farm ground, which ironically was suggested as an option 2 years ago...
Coles Co. (ECWd) - The Attorney General's Public Access Counselor has determined the Coles County Board violated the Open Meetings Act by failing to post a notice and the agenda 48 hours in advance of its December 7, 2020, meeting. Rather than simply admit to the error...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first covered the Shelby County forensic audit results in this article. It didn't take long for people to attempt to spin the information and actually post false claims. While there is plenty of information to share which has yet to be...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County forensic auditor provided a very condensed summary of his findings, which did not include thousands of pages of records. As we have said for years, many times it's not what we are told or what records are provided that...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The forensic audit of the Shelby County Sheriff's office exposed one particular item that jumped out at us. According to the audit, page 5, the Sheriff's office paid out on 11,808 hours that were never actually worked during the audit period of...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - The Shelby County Board held a special meeting tonight for the presentation of the forensic audit of the County Sheriff's office payroll from 2015 to 2020. Our investigation into payroll fraud began clear back in 2018 and the volume of malfeasance we had...
Illinois (ECWd) - Gubernatorial Candidate, Jesse Sullivan's campaign responded to our questions pertaining to the use of public property for campaign purposes as first exposed in this article. We sent the following to Candidate Sullivan yesterday: Mr. Sullivan, The following link reflects a campaign add which utilizes public...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - The campaign for Jesse Sullivan for Governor recently published a campaign advertisement, which we believe constitutes improper electioneering - not only by Sullivan but also by all of the Sheriffs who appeared in uniform with their publicly owned vehicles behind them, while endorsing...
