DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - We were forwarded an indemnification agreement entered into earlier this year by Northern Illinois University's President Baker and employee Nancy Suttenfield, interim Chief Financial Officer of NIU. What makes this worrisome is the after-the-fact indemnification, coupled with what appears to be indemnification of...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - Fact checking has become one of the most common things we do in our investigations of public bodies. It’s amazing how often we find half-truths, misinformation, and incomplete opinions, yet the very officials presenting such can look you in the eye...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - The agenda for the this weeks COD board meeting has been posted and it appears we are finally seeing true leadership from the new board. Item #10 is to vote on the Declaration That Dr. Breuder’s Employment Contract And All Amendments And Addenda...
Springfield, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Representative Edward J. Acevedo (D) appears to be electioneering with state funds against Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump. I am alleging that through the introduction of House Resolution 0761, which "Calls upon the Republican Party to publicly denounce Donald Trump for...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - Document dumps from COD have yet to disappoint when it comes to exposing even more corruption by the disgraced Robert Breuder. In a previous article we exposed the illegal spending by COD to a local corporation called Choose DuPage, which is an economic...
Kansas, IL. (ECWd) - Shortly before 10:00 a.m. today, Sep 15, 2015, the Kansas Fire Department was called to a house fire on the east end of town on Jefferson Street. Further information will be provided if we receive it. ...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - A recent article in the Daily Herald exposed key reasons COD controller Lynn Sapyta was fired, according to her attorney. My first thought was that she might want to get another attorney as we were shocked to see him expose the laundry list...
DuPage Co., IL. (ECWd) - ONLY YOU Can Prevent Forest Liars: Cross-Examination of the All-Star Witnesses in the DuPage County Forest Preserve IT Case PART TWELVE OF COUNTYLEAKS SERIES ON DUPAGE COUNTY FOREST PRESERVE...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - A recent document obtained through a FOIA request to COD sheds more light on Breuder and his misrepresentations to the media as well as ignorance to the law. An e-mail sent to Bruce Dold of the Chicago Tribune dated September 5th, 2014 reflects...
Effingham, IL. (ECWd) - It has come to our attention that the Board of Trustees of the Effingham School District were given free items (compensation) that the general public are not given, free of charge. We see this in almost every case where the legislature has explicitly...
