Bob Miller’s Reply to Interrogatories about Giving Salt to Illinois Railroad Museum at Odds with Patrick Kenneally’s Report

In the effort to recover almost $50,000 paid to former Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller from Road District funds after he lost the Republican primary to Andrew Gasser, legal proceedings have reached the point of Miller’s being required to answer questions in writing.

Illinois Leaks has examined the answers and analyzes some of them below, which are reprinted with permission.

Algonquin Township Road District – Interrogatory answers conflict with State’s Attorney investigation final report.

BY KIRK ALLEN ON DECEMBER 27, 2019 • ( LEAVE A COMMENT )

McHenry Co. (ECWd) – The former highway commissioner for Algonquin Township Road District, Bob Miller, invoked his 5th amendment rights during the criminal investigation according to the McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally. 

Because of that, Miller never had to answer any questions nor appeared before a grand jury.

Patrick Kenneally

Reading the final report from the State’s Attorney’s office and comparing it to answers now provided in the interrogatories from the civil case against Bob Miller points to numerous conflicts.

For example, the final report, (pages 45 and 46), of the salt give-a-way to the Illinois Rail Museum identifies at least three years where Miller provided Road District salt to the Railway Museum and that the Road District had no resolution declaring it as surplus for purposes of donating it to the IRM.

Illinois Railroad Museum

The report points to two Township Codes as relevant law on the matter, ( 60 ILCS 1/30-53 and 60 ILCS 80-75).

The statute that the State’s Attorney cites as relevant law has no relevancy at all since they apply to the Township, not the Road District. 

Of interest is what is not in the final report on this donation. 

There is no Road District law cited because there is no Road District law that permits the donation of public property like there is in the Township Code. 

Why was that overlooked? 

Actual relevant law would be the laws that apply to the public body being investigated, in this case, the Road District.

Since there is no provision for a Road District to surplus property and give it to a non-profit one would think that fact would have been part of the discussion in the report.

Bob Miller

Miller’s interrogatory question and answer raise more concerns, both in the investigation and as to what the real truth is, not to mention what other public bodies may or may not be doing with public property.

From the Interrogatory:

20. Identify the person or entity you contend owned the salt given to the Railway Museum in your answer to paragraph 89 of the complaint.

ANSWER: “This salt was given to the Road District by various municipalities as surplus material.

They were kept in a separate pile and given to the Illinois Railway Museum.”

Algonquin Township salt dome.

So if the salt was given to them by other municipalities, why does Kenneally’s report state,

“Township may have been deprived of the benefit of a few of the thousands of yards of salt ordered each year“? 

According to Miller, this salt giveaway was not from salt ordered but rather salt given away from other municipalities. 

Why would the report speak of salt that was ordered if that was not true?

The final report points to multiple years which salt was given away by Miller. 

Are we to believe various municipalities gave them a sufficient amount of salt in one year to be given away for several years? 

Or did the municipal surplus action take place every year?

While we have no pictures to confirm Miller’s claim regarding the salt being kept in a separate pile, we find it odd that there would be any need to separate that salt from the Road District’s salt since it was given to them, by various municipalities. 

What purpose is served by keeping separate piles of salt when it’s all yours anyway?

These points lead us to the question of who actually investigated this matter. 

Why would other municipalities give away their salt to the Road District? 

Did they donate it to the Road District once, twice, or each year Miller was giving it away? 

Why was this not uncovered in the criminal investigation? 

I suspect the taxpayers of those municipalities would like to know their hard-earned tax dollars were being given away to the Algonquin Township Road District, according to Miller.

Since Miller is now facing depositions, a lot more questions need to be asked, and clearly, if Miller’s claim is true, other municipalities need to be investigated for giving away public property that clearly is needed every winter. 

If it turns out other municipalities did not make the alleged contribution of salt, Miller will have other things to worry about.

Patrick Kenneally
Patrick Kenneally

For those that have forgotten or never knew from lack of local reporting, the civil case against Miller is directly connected to the State’s Attorney’s final report. 

Kenneally stated, “the Township and/or Road District has an adequate civil remedy for any improper distribution of salt.”. 

That remedy is being carried out by the Road District’s civil action and they are seeking recovery of funds improperly dispursed. 

The more information that percolates to the surface the worse it is looking for Bob Miller.

We are working on identifying who these municipalities are and will update this article in the future as the investigation continues.

Stay tuned for the next conflict exposure between the interrogatory and the State’s Attorney final report.

image name



Comments

Bob Miller’s Reply to Interrogatories about Giving Salt to Illinois Railroad Museum at Odds with Patrick Kenneally’s Report — 40 Comments

  1. ‘You can’t handle the truth’!

    ‘Son, we live in a world of Townships. We use words like Disneyland, Hooters and Designer bags. We use these words in a lifetime of spending other peoples money’……

  2. Further proof in my opinion this jackalope Kenneally doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing and shouldn’t be representing the People of McHenry County.

  3. If you repeat lie often enough people will believe even without it being factual.

    “McHenry Co. (ECWd) – The former highway commissioner for Algonquin Township Road District, Bob Miller, invoked his 5th amendment rights during the criminal investigation according to the McHenry County State’s Attorney Patrick Kenneally.”

    More than once I’ve told the Dog’s and Cal that Miller never took the 5th, that the SA report was incorrect, but yet the Dog’s keep repeating it.

    Fake news Kings, produce the legal document where Miller took the 5th.

    Fact is the Dog’s and this blog are really no better than the NWH or any other media source when it comes to printing BS.

  4. The Nob is the falsifier.

    Bob Miller DID take the fifth; not once but over 10 times!

  5. Since when does road salt go bad and become ‘surplus’ for Township vote buying giveaways of taxpayer property?

  6. nob – What proof do you have that confirms that Bob did not take the 5th as reported in the SA’s report. Is it only because Bob told you and thus we have to believe Bob at his word? Before I change my mind, it will be nice to see the proof!!

  7. Kenneally again!

    How come everytime something happens regarding investigations or lack of them involving government officials in McHenry County there are always more questions left than answers!

    It seems in my humble opinion he’s working for and protecting special interests and not the taxpayers and voters.

  8. Kenneally is a democrat. Look at his record. Bianchi was sadly mislead. And we’ve been had by another PACK fakeout.

  9. Never liked Kenneally. His past is full of bogus ‘achievements’ of a lib bent.

  10. A little salt transferred to a nice museum. A salt mountain out of an anthill!

    Watch out! The loonies are after Pat Kenneally again. He spooks them. Why?

  11. A little salt here, a Patronage job there, a little unauthorized spending…
    Multiply that by every taxing body. Every day.

    What is very disturbing is that sociopathic indifference to real, inhumane effects on individuals due to the obscene percentage of median household income taken for property taxes in this County compared to America.

    Families cannot save for college funds those thousands of extra dollars paid to support political malfeasance.
    Families cannot afford their pets, who turn up at shelters.

    You can draw a straight line between cause and effect.

    That is not trivial by my standards.

  12. Snowman, there are no legal documents to say someone didn’t take the 5th.

    I ask for proof, a legal document that proves he did, I know of non.

    SA made quite a few mistakes, not just this issue.

  13. It wasn’t his to give.

    It was taxpayer’s.

    Without taxpayer consent, it should be theft.

    Just like everything else.

  14. …Jose Gomez Jr. is also Gus, snowman61, Pete Sonneburg, Edmund Fitzgerald, and Ricky Ricardo…

    See next comment

  15. Bob Miller better move to a country w/ no extradition soon.

    How about Mongolia or Cuba?

    He can regale them about his salt and.

    Disneyland crime sprees.

  16. …Looks like ambien wears off at around 4 am, he posts…

    See next comment

  17. Then post every 10 minutes starting at around 3 pm under different handles.

    …see next post

  18. SALT what about everything that is documented Anna May Clampett stole Cars gasoline clothes computers phones purses schooling for her Grandkids Eastmain Cary Illinois …….Overtime really ?

    $100,000 she GAVE herself more than her Son-in-law’s they referred to her as C U ON THURSDAY EVERYONE JOKED

  19. …hmm, who is sad enough, obsessive enough, who must have deep seeded rage after multiple public humiliations to try to AstroTurf McHenry County Blog. The personality profile would be overweight, middle aged man, General target of mockery, literally still lives with mother. Man… who would fit that bill in McHenry County.

  20. CANADA HERE COME THE HILLBILLIES EAST MAIN CARY ILLINOIS ANNA MAY CLAN

  21. Invoking the 5th is not only through a legal document, as in a court document.

    A public record is a legal document and considered to be true as evidence.

    Only after proving that record false with evidence does it become false and the public record is that the 5th was invoked, which is his right and does not mean he is guilty.

    Robin you are using hearsay to try to debunk a public record and that only flies in Presidential impeachments in the House.

  22. The SA made a error in his statement, it’s a fact.

    Pat’s not Mary Poppin’s, Perfect in every way, like Kirk thinks he is.

  23. “legal proceedings have reached the point of Miller’s being required to answer questions in writing.”

    If Miller invoked the 5th, he wouldn’t be answering questions in any form, verbal or written.

  24. Robin I was TOLD by two public officials in the State’s Attorney office that he invoked the 5th.

    I also read it in the Final Report.

    I also have an email to confirm the Final Report was not an error on that point.

    I will stick with all of that as a whole to say your word does not trump those documents and people.

    What he may or may not be doing in a civil case is a matter between him and his attorney.

    Now that he has been assured there will be no prosecutions, why invoke the 5th?

    Care to place any bets what he does in a deposition?

  25. DJ – HA! Your comment above, is Perhaps your best comment ever!

  26. Kirk, I was told that no one interviewed Bob Miller for that report, SA or any of his investigators.

    You may want to contact those two people and ask them if they are willing to go on the record about what they told you.

    Just saying Pal.

  27. Sorry Snowman 62 / Kenneally but you’re wrong on all your hypothesise.

    Confirmation of your weak,inept legal and investigative skills but that is typical of the incompetent imbecile who is Fat, Bald and Ignorant!

  28. More nonsense from the Dog’s:

    “Because of that, Miller never had to answer any questions nor appeared before a grand jury.”

    Saying you are going to take the 5th does not absolve a person from appearing at a Grand jury is subpoenaed.

    Besides he never took the 5th and has always testified.

  29. He was never questioned because he was not going to answer the questions.

    Robin wants the world to believe that what he was told is true but what what we were told both verbally by two officials with direct knowledge and in an email, along with the same on an official document are false.

    And he says we are the Waltzers? LOL.

    Put up something other than heresy Robin.

    Any bets on what Miller does during the deposition?

    Still waiting on the answer to that question.

  30. To assist in your foia, my email to him was on November 18 or 19 of 2018.

    I dont have it in front of mr but reviewed it earlier, along with the response in quotes.

  31. Kirk Allen for Governor!

    He did more to uncover Miller’s crooked filth than Kenneally-Squeally, who tried to bury it.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *