Chicago, IL. (ECWd) - Former Illinois State Senator Sentenced to a Year in Federal Prison for Fraudulently Receiving Salary and Benefits From Labor Union CHICAGO — Former Illinois State Sen. THOMAS E. CULLERTON was sentenced today to a year in federal prison for fraudulently receiving salary and...
Washington, D.C. (ECWd) - Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. According to StThomasSource.com, Rodney Davis flew to the tropical island to spend the 2022 New Year's holidays on the island to "visit USVI election systems" at the St/ Croix Elections Office. We understand taxpayers...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) - After exposing the Sangamon Valley Public Water District's use of public resources having all the indicators of electioneering as exposed in this article, they corrected their press release as reported in this article. After we requested the emails they claimed to have received...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) - Our first three articles on the Sangamon Valley Public Water District can be read at the following links, here, here, and here. In the last article, we focused on the peculiar use of the words used in the response regarding emails we requested. ...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) - We first covered the Sangamon Valley Public Water District in this article that outlined what we believed to be electioneering with public resources. Our suspicion appeared to be confirmed because 37 minutes after publishing that article they corrected the press release while...
SPRINGFIELD, IL. (ECWd) - Governor Pritzker appointed Matthew Coates to the Prisoner Review Board last Friday. Coates, at the time of his appointment, was still listed as Director of Communications for the Bloomington School District 87 (according to their website), is an appointed (since May 2022) McLean...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) - It appears the Sangamon Valley Public Water District (SVPWD) got the message in our last article published at 11:42 AM today. Thirty Seven minutes after posting the article we received a message that the District has changed its press release. The original press...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - Rodney Davis appears in photos next to Chrisman School Superintendent Jim Acklin, while wearing a “Take Back The House” vest, in what appears to us as a campaign slogan. According to Open Secrets, Davis has received more than $174,000 from "Take Back The...
Champaign Co. (ECWd) - The Sangamon Valley Public Water District issued a press release dated June 13, 2022, that by all indications, appears to constitute both electioneering with public resources and in violation of the state ethics act. The citizen of the district organized and circulated petitions...
Lake County, IL. (ECWd) - Last month we wrote about resignations of the Shields Township Clerk, Assessor, and two Trustees (here) - but as it turns out, the two township trustees were permitted to withdraw their resignations because they only stated they "intended" to resign, not...
