Federal brokers have launched a legal probe into the embattled mayor of a Chicago suburb, Tiffany Henyard, issuing a subpoena to the self-proclaimed “tremendous mayor” final week for a trove of enterprise data and monetary stories.
FBI brokers served subpoenas to Henyard, who’s each the mayor of Dolton and the Thorntown Township Supervisor, on the Thorntown Township Corridor on Friday, Fox 32 Chicago reported.
The controversial chief has confronted a number of accusations that she has misappropriated taxpayer cash to cowl her private bills together with a police safety element in addition to pointless, lavish journey.
She was hit with two subpoenas — one which focuses on her and her non-public work and one which revolves across the township, based on the native station which obtained copies.
Within the first, the feds are searching for personnel recordsdata, wage and tax paperwork, time and attendance data, contracts and checks written to “money” from Henyard’s a number of endeavors — a restaurant she owns, a property administration firm she runs, her political motion committee and a charity in her title.
The second subpoena asks for a trove of township monetary paperwork like budgets, payroll data, and ordinances protecting bank card purchases, expense stories and reimbursements, safety particulars and use of autos, based on Fox 32.
The data the feds are searching for exhibits that Henyard is the first goal of the legal probe, former FBI agent Ross Rice informed the station.
“It’s very broad in scope. It’s very broad within the variety of folks and entities they’re asking for data on. So there have to be some critical allegations of wrongdoing that they’re attempting to resolve,” stated Rice, who reviewed the subpoenas.
Henyard has come beneath hearth for treating native police akin to her private safety at a $1 million price ticket — with native brass saying her necessities have hampered their skill to do their jobs and hold the neighborhood protected.
The Dolton village board unanimously voted to start an investigation into her alleged spending of taxpayer cash however Henyard shot down the decision with a veto final month.
The board then voted to rent former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who additionally served as a federal prosecutor, to research Henyard’s spending whereas additionally inviting the FBI to open its personal probe.
The FBI has reportedly acquired scores of complaints in opposition to the mayor, based on a enterprise proprietor who took his personal criticism in opposition to her to an FBI workplace. Lawrence Gardner, 57, informed The Publish he knowledgeable brokers that Henyard shuttered his trucking enterprise as a result of he refused to resume a $3,500 political contribution.
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