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December 25, 2024

McHenry County

McHenry Co. (ECWd) - A recent attempt by Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik to enrich herself  failed, yet that has not stopped her from making more demands in a case where she brought a counter-claim.  In that action, she alleged Gasser and others destroyed records but...

McHenry Co. (ECWd)- "My charge is clear and that is to bring this matter to a conclusion to staunch the bleeding of attorney's fees from the public treasury." That was the statement from Township attorney John Nelson, in a letter sent to all the attorneys involved in...

McHenry Co. (ECWd) - As the Algonquin Township Road District lawsuit against Bob Miller moves forward, so too does the counterclaim filed by Township Clerk Karen Lukasik, which alleged Highway Commissioner Gasser destroyed public records. The Lukasik counterclaim is going to have some high hurdles to overcome...

McHenry Co. (ECWd) - The former Algonquin Township Highway Commissioner Bob Miller took steps to have a nice payout of claimed sick time he claimed was owed to him from his prior employment from over 20 years ago. In a recent response in the ongoing civil lawsuit...

McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Charles Lutzow, Principal at CAL Financial Group Inc. and Algonquin Township Supervisor was sued for an alleged breach of Fiduciary Duty and Constructive Fraud in relation to his placing Algonquin Road District funds into accounts that do not name the Road District. We...

McHenry Co. (ECWd) During the June 20, 2019 hearing in Lake County regarding legal fees for Local 150 against the Algonquin Township Road District, the two attorneys for Local 150 took opposing positions on who should be responsible for the requested legal fees pertaining to Highway...

Algonquin Township (ECWd) - Yesterday in McHenry County Circuit Court, our Motion to Reconsider a previous Order denying (and then Staying production) a Motion to Quash a subpoena from Algonquin township for our DropBox files, including names of anyone who ever had access to them was...

ALGONQUIN TOWNSHIP (ECWd) - The Illinois Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") issued a determination letter stating that Algonquin Township violated the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") when they denied my March 21, 2019, FOIA request for certain records of the township. James Kelly, Algonquin Township Attorney,...

McHenry Co. (ECWd) - Algonquin Township Supervisor Chuck Lutzow has been entangled in an alleged breach of fiduciary duty and constructive fraud case as the treasure for the Township Road District funds. We covered the initial filing of that court case in this article. The lawsuit was...

McHenry Co. (ECWd) - We reported on the criminal complaint of intimidation and extortion filed by former Trustee Melissa Victor and current Trustee Rachael Lawrence in this article on May 23, 2019.  In that article, we listed a series of questions that the public officials and...

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