Lena, IL. (ECWd) - Elected Officials of municipalities are supposed to pay amounts owed to the municipality on time. After hearing about compensation being overpaid for years, we submitted a FOIA request for copies of water and sewer bills for the Village's elected officials. That information is...
Shelbyville, IL. (ECWd) - Shelby County Sheriff Don Koonce is electioneering using County resources according to a document obtained from the Illinois State Board of Elections. On Sep 22, 2020, Sheriff Don Koonce, faxed a Form D-1, Statement of Organization, reporting a change of address for the...
Shelby Co., IL. (ECWd) - Shelby County Auxiliary Sheriff's Deputy Rodney Stanfill was indicted in Fayette County last month for allegations of Class 4 Felony failure to notify buyer of rebuilt title to a vehicle. A Bench Warrant was issued on September 4, 2020, with a Bond...
Illinois (ECWd) - January 21, 2016, we broke the story on the illegal campaign expenditures of Frank Mautino, former State Representative and currently our State's Auditor General. (article here) That article triggered a Federal US Attorney investigation which Mautino's spokesperson claimed he was cooperating with. Next came...
Woodstock, IL. (ECWd) - Local 395 Union President Jeffrey Veach was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison. He was convicted of violating the crime of Hobbs Act Extortion Conspiracy in planning organizing and carrying out a beatdown of D5 Iron Works from Marengo Illinois,...
Will Co. (ECWd) - We have confirmed the criminal investigation of Bill Mayer, former DuPage Township Supervisor, was being handled by the Bolingbrook Police Department, however, it was turned over to the FBI in late June of this year. "I am no longer working the Township case....
Bolingbrook, IL. (ECWd) - It has come to our attention that an employee of a Florida Corporation based out of Orlando has been filing requests for public records with DuPage Township, mainly related to Trustee Alyssia Benford's communications. We asked JHT's President and COO, Carla Holoman, to...
Bradley, IL. (ECWd) - An Order of Protection has been granted against Bradley Village Administrator Catherine A. Wojnarowski by Porter County Superior Court (Indiana) Judge David Chidester on September 22, 2020. It is an Ex Parte Order For Protection and expires on September 22, 2021. As part of...
Wilmington, IL. (ECWd) - Wesley Township, Wesley Township Road District, and Leonard McCubbin sent a Settlement Demand to Cindy Brzana, et al, asking for them to voluntarily settle the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the township - as long as Brzana agrees to pay the...
Wilmington, IL. (ECWd) - Wesley Township filed a Counter Claim in the FOIA lawsuit. The counterclaim alleges Fraud, Civil Conspiracy, Abuse of FOIA, Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress, and seeks a jury trial. Leonard McCubbin, an appointed trustee of the Township, is seeking $50,000.00 in damages, punitive...
