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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk164083410"></a><a name="_Hlk171693252"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>
July 15, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk171693252"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">MEDIA CONTACT<br>
Deanna Shoss, 773.478.8417<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk171693252"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk171693252"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">OIG Releases Second
Quarter 2024 Report, Documenting Sustained Investigations into Serious Misconduct---Including Using City Title for Personal Gain, A Manager Encouraging Subordinates to Drink on City Time, Contract Bidding Fraud<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has published its Quarterly Report for the second quarter
of 2024, which summarizes concluded investigations, inquiries, intakes, and other operations of OIG, from April 1, 2024 through June 30, 2024. This report has been filed with City Council, pursuant to § 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago (MCC).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><a name="_Hlk171693338"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">“A thread runs through a number of the matters which are reported herein: that here
in City government, the rules ought to apply to everyone—regardless of titles, relationships, or contract amounts,” said Deborah Witzburg, Inspector General for the City of Chicago. “We will continue to pursue aggressive enforcement of the City’s rules against
all those who break them, as we work to pay down the deficit of legitimacy at which Chicago operates.”<o:p></o:p></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">In its quarterly report, as required by law, OIG publishes de-identified summaries of sustained, completed
investigations within the quarter. Among others, OIG investigations reported this quarter have revealed:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">A high-ranking Chicago Fire Department (CFD) official violated City rules when they appeared, bearing their CFD uniform and implements,
at an inspection being conducted by another City department at the property of a personal friend. OIG concluded that the subject’s conduct created an appearance of impropriety as evidenced by testimony from the inspection task force members.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">On several instances in 2022 and 2023, a former deputy mayor possessed and consumed alcohol on City time, encouraged subordinate
employees to drink alcohol on City time, and drove a City vehicle after consuming alcohol. OIG recommended that the Mayor’s Office refer the former deputy mayor and another former senior employee of the Mayor’s Office, who reportedly conducted interviews of
Mayoral Fellows after telling witnesses they were “too drunk” to do so, for placement on the ineligible for rehire list maintained by the Department of Human Resources.
<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">A major City contractor misrepresented their status as a City-based business in five separate City bid packages in order to secure
a bidding advantage on $50 million worth of infrastructure contracts; the City has initiated debarment proceedings against that contractor on the basis of OIG’s investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3">
<span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">Long-time Alderman Edward M. Burke has been sentenced in a criminal case related to an OIG investigation.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">In addition to its investigative work, OIG processed 4,948 new intakes and concluded 34 misconduct investigations
this quarter. OIG also released inquiry reports including a follow-up report on CPD’s preparedness for mass gatherings and a</span>
</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">follow-up</span>
</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk164083410"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif">audit of the Department of Buildings (DOB) permit inspection process.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://igchicago.org/publications/quarterly-report-q2-2024/">Read the full report, released on July
15, 2024.</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:105%;font-family:"Arial Nova Light",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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