The Chicago Board of Ethics on Monday asked inspectors general for the city and Chicago Public Schools to investigate Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s re-election campaign to determine if the campaign violated the city’s ethics ordinance by recruiting student volunteers at CPS and City Colleges in exchange for class credit.
The vote came after a closed-door executive session. As always, neither the board’s agenda nor the summary of cases identified the subject of the investigation.
"Investigations conducted by the Office of Inspector General are confidential. There are only very limited circumstances under which the municipal code permits us to make any public statement about our investigative work. That said, in my view, the abuse of an official position for political gain has no place in Chicago. Not anymore," Witzburg told the Sun-Times.
The mayor claims she knew nothing about the student recruitment effort until her campaign was questioned by WTTW Channel 11, which broke the story, and she immediately admonished her deputy campaign manager for crossing an ethical line. "There must be an impenetrable wall — not just a line, but a wall — between anything that happens on the political side and anything that happens on the official side, the government side. That wall can never be breached," she said.
"The easy political thing to do would be to fire her, throw her body to the hungry hordes. But I don’t think that’s the right thing to do in this instance," the mayor said. "I have a lot of young people that work for me. … This is an important teachable moment for them."
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