Posted on 01/30/2025 1:28:21 AM PST by Libloather
Chicago cops blocked city inspectors from entering a curious “Gift Room” filled with designer bags, Hugo Boss cufflinks, a personalized Mont Blanc pen and other ritzy goodies that were accepted by Mayor Brandon Johnson, according to a bombshell report.
The trove of pricey giveaways are part of an “unwritten arrangement” that dates back 35 years, in which mayors can just write down gifts they received in a logbook and store some of them on the fifth floor of City Hall instead of reporting them to the Board of Ethics, according to the Office of Inspector General.
But the new report issued Wednesday outlines the numerous times investigators were rebuffed from learning more about the 236 gifts given to Johnson “on behalf of the city” since he took office.
An investigator initially posed as a member of the public to request the gift log while visiting City Hall last year, but was turned down and forced to formally make a request.
The covert official then filed the paperwork, but was ignored. Eventually, the mayor’s office handed over the information after the inspector general made the official request for all gifts given between Feb. 2022 when Lori Lightfoot was in office and March 20, 2024.
The log had incomplete information, but still listed hundreds of luxury presents, including the cuff links, Mont Blanc pen, bags and purses from Gucci, Kate Spade, and Givenchy and Carrucci burgundy shoes that are a men’s size 14
When OIG officials requested access to check out the room, they were met by Chicago cops who told them to wait in the elevator lobby, according to the report.
After wrangling between OIG and the mayor’s office, inspectors were told they would not get inside the room, the report states.
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Under Communism the Vanguard of the Proletariat gets all the goodies....
Those that take bribes are owned for life and it’s a short one when they know to much.
Those Hugo Boss cufflinks will go great with his “Armband” by the same designer. /s
Now before anyone chimes in that Hugo Boss didn’t design the “armband”, I was just being sarcastic.
Just remember who had the snappiest uniforms about 85 years ago.
Go figure
Thirty-five years ago, the mayor of Chicago was Harold Washington. He was Chicago's first African-American mayor.
-PJ
“The trove of pricey giveaways are part of an ‘unwritten arrangement’ that dates back 35 years, in which mayors can just write down gifts they received in a logbook and store some of them on the fifth floor of City Hall instead of reporting them to the Board of Ethics, according to the Office of Inspector General.”
‘Oh, THAT room, Officers? That’s just my Gift Wrapping Room! Doesn’t everyone have one of those?’
These losers/looters are all seriously on their last legs. MAGA!
“Well we’re movin’ on up......”
Open a Federal Investigation.
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