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Springfield, Illinois City Council has until the end of today Jan 24, 2025 to answer DEMAND LETTER
1 posted on 01/24/2025 12:43:17 PM PST by COSIllinois
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To: COSIllinois

She takes off her shirt, and then reveals: “Vote Twice”.


2 posted on 01/24/2025 12:49:16 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: COSIllinois

There are simply not enough lawsuits for violation of rights under color of law.


6 posted on 01/24/2025 1:08:18 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: COSIllinois

The perp:

https://www.springfieldbusinessjournal.com/articles/lakeisha-purchase-violated-idot-policy-report-says-15292631

Lakeisha Purchase violated IDOT policy, report says
Ward 5 alderperson citied for ‘abusing’ state time through personal phone calls, political work

By Dean Olsen

Lakeisha Purchase violated IDOT policy, report says
Lakeisha Purchase took part in phone calls unrelated to her job at the Illinois Department of Transportation for almost half of the time she was supposed to be working during an 18-month period in 2021 and 2022, a state report says.

Purchase, 35, the Springfield Ward 5 alderperson since September 2021, quit her job as an IDOT supportive services specialist on July 5, 2023, after 14 years with the department.

The 20-page report, made public in late May, recommended that Purchase be disciplined “up to and including discharge.”

But Purchase, who was interviewed by state investigators in September 2022, resigned from her $72,000-a-year state job six months before IDOT received the report from the executive inspector general for the agencies of the Illinois governor.

IDOT spokesperson Paul Wappel wouldn’t comment on whether the agency would seek reimbursement from Purchase or pursue criminal charges.

Wappel emailed a statement that said: “Through policy and repeated trainings, the Illinois Department of Transportation reinforces for employees that they will be held to the highest standards to ensure they are performing their state responsibilities on state time. The department takes appropriate action to address violations. We appreciate the recommendations in the report and the opportunity to remind our employees of the rules and responsibilities while working at IDOT.”

The OIG report said there is “reasonable cause to believe that Ms. Purchase violated IDOT policy by performing outside employment, including, at minimum, attending meetings and participating in phone calls related to her alderwoman and Capital Township trustee duties, during state time.”

The report said Purchase was mostly working for IDOT remotely when OIG received its first complaint in late October 2021 that she may be performing her aldermanic duties on state time.

In addition to “abusing state time,” the report said Purchase conducted “prohibited political activity, at a minimum by making and receiving phone calls and sending texts” when she was volunteering as an uncompensated central Illinois coordinator for Democrat Anna Valencia’s unsuccessful 2022 campaign for Illinois secretary of state. . .

The OIG report said Purchase also violated IDOT policy by failing to properly report all of her outside employment to IDOT, including her work as a Capital Township trustee, her work as owner of Kashmir DST LLC, a residential real estate development and management company, and her activities when she was owner, sales director and had assets or earned income from properties – all associated with a company called Precision 1-on-1 Properties.


7 posted on 01/24/2025 1:15:03 PM PST by Fedora
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