Posted on 05/20/2026 4:08:52 AM PDT by Libloather
An Illinois park executive is facing backlash after she was accused of using a taxpayer-funded credit card to help pay for an $800 helicopter rental for her daughter’s prom photoshoot.
Quintina Brown, head of the Markham Park District outside Chicago, arranged for the helicopter to land at Roesner Park on May 8 so her 17-year-old daughter Quamyra could pose for pictures in front of it.
The helicopter company gave an invoice to city attorney Kelly Krauchun that included a credit card number linked to Brown, according to WPSD.
The invoice reportedly listed “Markham Parks” as the customer, used the park district fieldhouse address and included Brown’s signature.
Krauchun said at least the deposit was charged to a park district credit card funded by taxpayers.
“They told me that the deposit was charged to the card, and they have not been successful in getting the remaining $800 off the card, for whatever reason,” Krauchun said, referring to the helicopter company.
The invoice was reportedly for a minimum of $800 for one hour of service.
Markham Mayor Roger Agpawa said residents should be concerned if a park district credit card was used either to pay for or secure the booking.
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Quintina
Uh-huh.
Quintina and Quamyra
Sheeeeeyit. Everything in her house was probably paid for by the taxpayers.
It’s…THEM!!! Go DEI and go broke. Doesn’t rhyme. Doesn’t matter.
Well, it DOES make it easy to know who they are 😏
This isn’t on the helicopter company, call the cops on your employee and take it out of her pay. And then can her.
And THAT’S the grift you can see!!
I’m not certain that this is actually illegal, or even improper, in Illinois. If you can’t take care of your kids, what kind of parent are you, anyway particularly if you have a good job?
Quamyra is already tatted up
Does Quamyra have a father ?
Markham.
No surprise there.
L
It's time for Trump to go full Pinochet.
These worthless criminal grifters who are government employees seem to be ever creative in how they steal taxpayers’ money. Throw this criminal clown in prison for a while. Fire her. Take away any pension as “reparations” to the taxpayers. Seize her assets.
What is it with people of color and prom?
They rule over us.
It seems everything in government is so lax. I had a company credit card for a long time. We had a credit card program where I had to balance it every month. Explain what each charge was for and upload every receipt. I would receive an email with all the charges and have to use the program to balance them all.
What’s with these videos of black kids on prom night flashing wads of cash staged in front of expensive cars? They look ridiculous. Junior pimps and dork rapper wannabes is what they look like.
Oh, Quintina, how could you!
Yes all the fraud going on in the country by democrat slackers prove it.
We have the same thing here at our company. It has cut down on tons of abuse.
I bet not one of these govt agencies uses anything like this. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to hide their grift.
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