Is this related to the voter fraud investigation a few weeks ago which Dems tried to spin as an attempt to suppress the black vote?
Nope. This has been going on for some time. Dyer won the mayor's race by less than 1/2%, and now it appears that there was some funny business.
Dyer had a reputation as an effective Democratic State Senator before he ran for Mayor. Now he's looking more like a crook.
His policies have been screwy as well. One of the first things he did was fire 1/3 of the people at city hall. I remember thinking, "maybe I misjudged this guy. Maybe he is an effective administrator afterall." We had a $12 million budget shortfall at the time, so it seemed something had to be done. Then a few days later he announced that he was increasing the salary of the surviving employees by 1/3. So much for that thought.