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Jesse White aide claims cover-up - Ex-secretary says White took over firm under state scrutiny
Chicago Sun-Times - Sunday, January 20, 2002
Author: Tim Novak Mark Brown
Secretary of State Jesse White ‘s former secretary on Friday denied misspending at least $100,000 in state grants that White helped her get to train welfare mothers as office workers.
Donna Lumpkins Floyd insisted that her company, Infinity Cultivation Center, trained 350 to 400 people, but she said she is unable to prove that to state officials because White seized control of the company last spring and had the records destroyed when officials were trying to determine how the money had been spent.
” Jesse took over my company, all assets of my company, all documentation, all equipment during the last six months of its existence. People destroyed all the records,” Floyd said during a half-hour interview. “When Jesse got the business from me, he changed the locks. I had no access to the facility.”
Floyd ‘s allegations are “utterly ridiculous,” said White ‘s spokesman, Dave Druker. “Clearly, she’s become desperate, and it’s unfortunate that she’s lashed out against the secretary when her problems are with the departments of Human Services and Commerce and Community Affairs.”
The Chicago Sun-Times reported in Friday’s editions that state officials want Floyd to return at least $100,000 of the $175,000 in state grants she got while working for White because there is no evidence she trained people. But state officials said they had no idea where to find Floyd and that they may turn the case over to the State Police or Attorney General Jim Ryan.
Floyd called the Sun-Times from Arizona, where she said she has been living since September, after White had her evicted from an apartment in Chicago’s Roseland neighborhood. Floyd said White arranged for her to get the apartment after she stabbed her husband in the leg a year ago. Druker said White did help Floyd get the apartment but that she was evicted for failing to pay rent.
“I think this is a political charge,” Floyd said. “Perhaps, probably I didn’t follow the [state] guidelines to a ‘T,’ but this is a political fight because of my relationship with Secretary White .”
Floyd , 29, said she had a personal relationship with White , 67, a relationship that helped end her marriage to a former member of White ‘s famous tumbling team.
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Floyd backed off the claims of a sexual relationship and destroyed files. Later Circuit Court Judge John Madden against Floyd in civil court, claiming $300,000 was “misspent.”
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White ‘s ex-secretary misspent $300,000 - Judge rules against Floyd after she fails to present a defense
Chicago Sun-Times - Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Author: Tim Novak
A Cook County judge has ruled that Secretary of State Jesse White ‘s former secretary misspent $300,000, including $175,000 in state grants that she got with White ‘s help to train welfare mothers to be office workers.
Circuit Court Judge John Madden ruled Monday against White ‘s former aide, Donna Lumpkins Floyd , because she never mounted a defense against the civil lawsuit Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan filed five months ago. Ryan’s lawsuit charged that Floyd wrote numerous checks to herself, spent $14,000 at two car dealers, and gave money to her mother, sister and ex-husband, a former member of Jesse White ‘s tumbling team.
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The state will now ask Madden to appoint someone to try to get the money back from Floyd . However, Perkins said, “The chances of us getting money from her was always questionable in our minds.”
Floyd could not be reached for comment. She has been living in Arizona since she had a falling out with White . Floyd had told the Sun-Times that she and White had a personal relationship, a claim White denied.
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White introduced Floyd to state Sen. Rickey Hendon (D-Chicago) and other legislators, who were asked to give her grants for her program.