SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - With all the media reports of alleged improper campaign spending by Frank Mautino, I decided to look at the Sponsors of joint resolution appointing him as Illinois Auditor General. Why haven't these Legislators spoken out and encouraged Mautino to come clean on his...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - The Reform Board of Mazzochi, Napolitano, and Bernstein have called for a special meeting at 7pm, Wed. February 3rd. The agenda is identical to the meeting called by the Breuder Board commonly referred to as the boycotters. According to the 7pm agenda, ...
College of DuPage (ECWd) - The three boycotting trustees, known for boycotting both previous meetings they have called, decided to call for another special meeting of the College of DuPage Board of Trustees for 5:30 p.m., February 3, 2016. The question is will they actually show up, or...
Illinois (ECWd) - Surprisingly, we were the first to break the story on Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautino and his clearly questionable spending of over $213,000.00 on gas and repairs for campaign vehicles. (First article here) It has been 2 weeks since my first communications with...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - We left off with the "Proud to be a Good Ole Boy" and "Your County Board is not stealing from you" articles. Now we will discuss Edgar County Board Member Mike Helsley's recent self-projected envy of honorable service, through a so-called "newspaper". Here is the...
LERNA, IL. (ECWd) - Don Pearcy, the unofficial now-former Village of Lerna President (maybe), tendered his "conditional resignation in a Special Meeting today, January 31, 2016. The problem is that the term of his "conditional" resignation resulted in the village trustees violating the Illinois Municipal Code due...
DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - Between January 2014 and February 2015, of the approximately $36.000.00 of p-card (credit card) expenditures from one Northern Illinois University p-card account, around $19,000.00 was travel. -- $1,900.00 of this was for Magaly Rodrigues, NIU's "Chief Inspiration Officer", who would not qualify since she was commuting...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In another of our short dispatches in response to Edgar County Board Member Charles Michael Heltsley's childish rant (read it here) in the self-proclaimed "news" paper, we give you another gem to think about: "The county board is not stealing from you...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Next in his "letter" to the so-called editors of the Prairie Press, he talks about getting the work of the people done: Their agenda is to harass and destroy what is commonly referred to as the "Good Ole Boys". Well, he finally got one...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - One can only wonder what goes through the mind of Erin Birt, College of DuPage Board Trustee. As an attorney, you would think she would understand the basics of attorney-client privilege. In addition, for a person who just filed a lawsuit against...
