A treasurer’s office portfolio manager sent an eight-page complaint to the public integrity units of both the Illinois attorney general and U.S. Department of Justice in November.
 

Chicago Tribune

Chicago treasurer employee alleges political staff pushed office on US bonds boycott

A whistleblower in City Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin’s office filed a wide-ranging ethics complaint against her late last year, alleging the congressional candidate’s political staff pushed a questionable plan to boycott U.S. Treasury bonds in protest of President Donald Trump, despite internal objections over its financial prudence.

Read Story

Related articles:

Gov. JB Pritzker expected to target budget gap — and President Donald Trump — in Illinois statewide address


How Jeffrey Epstein used the glamour of the Nobel Peace Prize to entice his global network of elites