Federal brokers have launched a felony 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 studies.
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 money 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 personal work and one which revolves across the township, in accordance with 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 masking bank card purchases, expense studies and reimbursements, safety particulars and use of automobiles, in accordance with Fox 32.
The data the feds are searching for reveals that Henyard is the first goal of the felony probe, former FBI agent Ross Rice advised 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 should be some critical allegations of wrongdoing that they’re attempting to resolve,” stated Rice, who reviewed the subpoenas.
Henyard has come underneath fireplace for treating native police akin to her private safety at a $1 million price ticket — with native brass saying her necessities have hampered their means to do their jobs and preserve the neighborhood secure.
The Dolton village board unanimously voted to start an investigation into her alleged spending of taxpayer cash however Henyard shot down the resolution with a veto final month.
The board then voted to hire former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who additionally served as a federal prosecutor, to analyze Henyard’s spending whereas additionally inviting the FBI to open its personal probe.
The FBI has reportedly acquired scores of complaints towards the mayor, in accordance with a enterprise proprietor who took his personal criticism towards her to an FBI workplace. Lawrence Gardner, 57, advised The Submit he knowledgeable brokers that Henyard shuttered his trucking business as a result of he refused to resume a $3,500 political contribution.
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