Chicago's inspector accuses the mayor's free gift received from a special interest group and accuses the Mayor of Brandon Johnson's Stonewall Bureau, investigating his hidden places of thousands of dollars. 。
In the report, there is a title Recommendations for gifts accepted on behalf of the cityThe survey has shown that Johnson has not properly reported hundreds of expensive gifts given. According to Austin Berg, a member of the Illinois State Research Institute.
The current city law has demanded that the mayor gain permission from the city council to accept a specific gift, and Johnson seems to have skipped this step on multiple opportunities. However, under the “Rules that are not written”, the ethics committee collects the “logbook” of generally used gifts in response to the request, and the mayor accepts the gift without approval from the city council. I allowed.
However, the IG office dispatched a representative of a regular citizen in a citizen's office to seek access to this logbook, but was rejected. Later, the IG submitted a FOIA request to access books as an ordinary person and was rejected again. The IG eventually had to make an official request against the logbook before the mayor's office allowed the log access to logs.
The official record shows that some of these secret gifts are stored in the mayor's office and others are hidden in the “gift room”.
Next, the IG office appeared at the city hall and asked to see this “gift room”, but the mayor's staff refused them. The city's law firm has become involved, and IG has refused to be a legal right to access the so -called “gift room”.
The city's rules require that these records can be used in the office of the Inspector General in response to demand.
According to BERG, “facilities, equipment, staff, books, records, and documents in each department will be available as soon as the general becomes able to execute.”
Eventually, the IG finally accessed, and the number of gifts was raising eyebrows.
The expensive prizes given to the mayor include hugoboscaflinks, personalized Montbler Pen, Gucci Tote bag, Cross Body Bag, Given Spady Bag, Kate Spade Red Purse, and Burgundy Men's Shoes of Calus size 14. It is. Other items that can be collected.
According to the IG report, “When gifts are literally changing hands in a room without windows in the city hall, there is no validity of such gifts, the monitoring of the identity and intentions and public scrutiny. It means that gifts such as gifts, whiskey, handbags, and size 14 shoes are accepted “on behalf of the city”. “
Berg has added that the exchange of gifts hidden from the eyes of PR searches is a typical room in the back room that invades Chicago.
“This story is about Johnson and more than these gifts.” I wrote。 “This episode as a whole, an unwritten arrangement, a secret log, a stone wall from a city lawyer- is not a flurry. It is a way to operate Chicago.”
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