Illinois (ECWd) - Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino was cherry picked to hold a 10-year government position that has the oversite investigative power to include subpoena power in the State of Illinois like none other, next to the Attorney General. He is not an auditor...
 Illinois (ECWd) The D2 filing for Frank Mautino's campaign reflected a lot of loan payments for loans that did not exist according to the paperwork. In reviewing the Joe & Harry payments some of those loan checks jumped out at me. Loan Payments, which we have covered...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - Illinois State Representatives Jeanne Ives and Grant Wehrli talk to ECWd about their thoughts on Mautino and last week's hearing in Chicago. Rep. Wehrli also mentioned HB0415, which would require a photo of expense receipts be filed along with the expenditure report to...
Who is Harry? Whoever he is, much like Joe, he received campaign cash on a regular basis, year after year from Frank Mautino's campaign account. Mautino, our current Auditor General, as in our top watchdog for financial accountability in the state, would cash a check at...
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY (ECWd) - Attention students, and parents of students, at Northern Illinois University! If you are unhappy with the high dorm prices, pay attention to this story! Considering NIU’s own reporting of a dorm room’s fair market value to the IRS, you should be...
Illinois (ECWd) - Who is Joe? Whoever he is, he received campaign cash on a regular basis, year after year from Frank Mautino's campaign account. Mautino, our current Auditor General, as in our top watchdog for financial accountability in the state, would cash a check at Spring...
Alorton, IL. (ECWd) - Jo Ann Reed, the vile creature who was caught on camera screaming obscenities, the likes you might hear from a drunken street hooker, at a citizen in the parking lot of Commonfields of Cahokia Water District; charged and convicted in 2014 of a...
Northern Illinois University - (ECWd) - Is it better for a state agency to misrepresent its practices to the Office of the Auditor General or to the Public Access Bureau of the Attorney General’s office? That is the dilemma in which Northern Illinois University (NIU) finds...
Illinois - (ECWd) We have confirmed that Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino's campaign treasurer has, in fact, testified before a Criminal Grand Jury. Q. Okay. Have you ever received any other subpoenas for documents or depositions in which the Committee for Frank J. Mautino was...
Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - The State Board of Elections held a hearing to iron out Frank Mautino's campaign committee's apparent refusal/inability to amend their past filings as previously directed by the Board. We first broke this story in January of 2016 in this article. This hearing was...
