...not much different than any of the other counties we have looked at. More often than not, the State’s Attorneys are failing those public bodies with their lack of knowledge...
LOGAN CO., IL (ECWd) – In the business of government, elected officials and certain others in decision-making positions are required to file true and accurate Statements of Economic Interest for...
...calls to the OPPL and stated that he directly asked both Mary Weimar and OPPL FOIA Compliance Officer Mary Adamowski if they would resolve this matter by authorizing Lao Sze...
...the State and Federal Government. Based on this reporting, they failed to report any payments to other government entities to inlcude State and Federal. If they did in fact pay...
...reports Vandenberg continuing to shout, “I’m the Mayor. Mayor coming through!” and states that when she recognized that it really was Mayor Vandenberg she no longer tried stopping him; she...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) – A complaint was filed with the Illinois Governor’s Office of the Executive Inspector General (“OEIG”) complaining about: IDOT Chief Counsel’s wrongful interpretation of state law IDOT...
...of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The clause, which took effect in 1868, provides that no state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction “the equal...
...Illinois State Legislature did not intend to create such a loophole for public employees to evade scrutiny. What’s to stop every public employee in the state from trying this trick...
“How could one woman steal over $53,000,000 without anyone noticing?” The largest municipal fraud case in the history of the United States, and not surprisingly it happened in Illinois, a...