Chicago’s top watchdog finds probable cause that former Mayor Lori Lightfoot solicited campaign contributions from city workers in this year’s mayoral race. The finding against Lightfoot follows extensive coverage of her campaign email practices.
Reached for comment, Gardiner did not confirm or deny he was the subject of the investigation.“I didn’t even know about this,” Gardiner said on the phone. Asked if the OIG’s summary sounded accurate, he cut in, “I’ll have to look into this and get back to you,” before hanging up.
Czosnyka received $675 in ticketing over his garden following a June 2019 inspection that found excessive weeds over 10 inches leading to a rodent infestation, but the case was dropped that December after an extensive battle in municipal court, records show.of the citations with two office employees who later transferred to the Department of Streets and Sanitation.
Inspector General Deborah Witzburg noted in her cover letter to Friday’s report that “In this quarter, we report the first-ever finding of probable cause in an OIG Ethics investigation of a sitting member of City Council.”that federal investigators searched Gardiner’s text messages a little over a year after he assumed office as part of an investigation into whether he accepted a $5,000 payment from a developer in exchange for stalling a housing development in the 45th Ward.
“OIG obtained political campaign emails sent by the official’s political campaign which demonstrated that the official misused their City title in pursuit of a political purpose, as well as misused the authority of their office and City email addresses for a political purpose,” Witzburg wrote, without naming Lightfoot. “The political campaign emails also demonstrated that the official improperly solicited political donations from City employees, over whom the official had supervisory authority.
the practice of sending emails to public workers soliciting campaign help. But an email direct to Lightfoot from Witzburg in March 2022 warned her to cease sending political communications to public employee emails.
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