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Saying no state court has ever seen a case like this, the director of the Illinois State Police Merit Board is asking a state appeals court in Springfield to ignore what she says is an attempt by Illinois’ Attorney General Kwame Raoul to kill off a politically embarrassing lawsuit against a former Merit Board employee, who is accused of using her connections to Raoul’s political ally, Gov. JB Pritzker, to further her alleged schemes to defraud the state of more than $500,000 of public money.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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The law is no obstacle for Illinois Democrats. Tyrants can count on tyranny.
>>answer the question of whether the Attorney General can assert nearly unfettered power to dispose of fraud cases against the state brought by whistleblowers, regardless of the facts of the case.<<
If this happens, why would anyone come forward as a whistleblower…???
All these recent attacks on whistleblowers by the L/R establishment cabal tells me that the allegations are true & the elites are worried…
Kwame needs to do the dirty laundry and clean up Pugsley’s ethical skid marks.
Kwame is a vegetable when it comes to legal skills and ethics, and needs to resign.
He is also the bag-boy for Illinois’ crooked red light camera racketeers:
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2018/3/9/18367837/illinois-deserves-a-conflict-free-attorney-general
Spot on Giddy. He’d probably get along just fine with Hunter….