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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The only thing taking up space in that room is the air molecules. Guaranteed it’s gone.
CC
A whole room for this? Paul Powell only had a closet full of shoeboxes. Of course, the shoe boxes were full of unmarked $100 bills and they don’t take up that much space, but still.....
Hey, it’s Chicago, laws don’t apply here! Never did.
File a complaint against the mayor here.
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Democrat cities are hellholes BECAUSE democrats run them. Laws don’t apply...
ChiCongo’$ tribal leader
This is reminder of Imelda Marcos’ shoe collection...corruption.
Like the Kings of old, the Chicago mayor has a treasure room which only he may enter.
Rename it the Graft Room.
Now looking back, one recalls "community organizer" Obama was a player in that game, involved in the early versions of the Chicago Climate Exchange, and University of Chicago. And that "presidential center" which will not house his documents? Chicago.
Let’s Go Biden! FBJ! Chicongo’s flunky, two bit Al Capone wannabe.
Forget it, Jake, it’s Chicago.
It’s a Chicago tradition! They actually say that in so many words. Human sacrifice used to be a tradition too.
Obama - somehow the only virgin in the whorehouse
Don't forget his circle of "high men."
Geraldo always finds the goods.
...Carrucci burgundy shoes that are a men’s size 14....
Does Big Mike have size 14 feet??
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