WBBM-TV reports on a 21-year old McHenry County woman’s visit to Las Vegas who had her cell phone stolen. That resulted in unauthorized credit card purchases, plus withdrawal of $2,000 from her checking account at Chase Bank. The credit card … Continue reading
Category Archives: Credit Cards
No Reason to think the depth of corruption in Illinois’ Metro-East area is any indication of anything wrong in McHenry County, but some might find this article of interest: 7 PUBLIC OFFICIALS ARRESTED IN METRO EAST AREA ON CORRUPTION CHARGES … Continue reading
Found reference to the subject in the Daily Herald Thursday and it reminded me to wonder what happened to the points gained in times past by the Algonquin Township Road District American Express card: Authorities: Ex-school finance official stole credit … Continue reading
Reprinted with permission from Illinois Leaks: Algonquin Township – Gooch misinformation campaign under the Circus Big Top BY KIRK ALLEN ON SEPTEMBER 22, 2018 • ( LEAVE A COMMENT ) McHenry Co. (ECWd) –Thomas Gooch III filed a “DEFENDANT’S COMBINED MOTION TO DISMISS BROUGHT PURSUANT TO 735 … Continue reading
When McHenry County Sheriff Bill Prim declared that he had a conflict of interest in the investigation of Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller’s credit card charges (because Prim had supported Miller’s re-nomination for the office), he turned the matter … Continue reading
I filed a Freedom of Information Request for the reward point pages of a number of American Express Premium Credit Card statements with the Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik. A week delay was requested and granted. Now I have received … Continue reading
Re-printed with permission from Illinois Leaks: Algonquin Township Road District – $1,250 in Gift Cards from Barn Nursery and Landscape BY KIRK ALLEN ON MAY 10, 2018 • ( LEAVE A COMMENT ) McHenry Co. (ECWd) –Once again we find Gift Cards being purchased with the … Continue reading
Former Algonquin Township Assessor Bob Kunz, of whom I am a fan, having never seen him do anything unethical, wrote the following comment under the Illinois Leaks article about his using his township credit card for personal purposes: Bob Kunz’ … Continue reading
This article was published on Illinois Leaks and is re-published here with permission: Algonquin Township – Clerk Lukasik needs to resign immediately BY KIRK ALLEN ON MAY 7, 2018 • ( 1 COMMENT ) McHenry Co. (ECWd) –Last November the Algonquin Township Clerk, Karen Lukasik, denied my … Continue reading
Last week I noticed that the American Express Credit Card that former Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller used for business purposes had a lot of reward points. The points went somewhere. However, in response to a Freedom of Information … Continue reading
At the end of June, 2008, there was a 204,403 “total points balance” in Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller’s American Express Credit Card account. Anyone but I interested in how they were redeemed? … Continue reading
A press release from the U.S. Attorney for Southern Illinois: Former Director of East St. Louis Public Library Indicted for Fraud and Embezzlement Marlon P. Bush, 47, formerly the Director of the East St. Louis Public Library, was charged in … Continue reading
Here’s a State’s Attorney who had indicted a County Supervisor of Assessments for improper use of a county credit card. The story is from Illinois Leaks and is published with permission: Joseph Meents, former Champaign Co. Supervisor of Assessments, appeared … Continue reading
An article by Kirk Allen of Illinois Leaks. It is reprinted with the author’s permission: Algonquin Township – Public funds for private purpose?- You be the Judge! BY KIRK ALLEN ON NOVEMBER 14, 2017 • ( 2 COMMENTS ) Algonquin (ECWd) –Once again we must emphasize … Continue reading
June 15th Robert Hanlan, Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Andrew Gasser’s attorney, filed an amendment to his suit against Township Clerk Karin Lukasik, plus for Road Commissioner Bob Miller and his wife Anna May Miller. This was the source of the … Continue reading
The data released recently from the American Express Credit Card of former Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller includes items more recent than the two 2008 airline tickets for non-township employees and the purchase of women’s clothing. Consider, for instance, … Continue reading
A document made public recently shows two airline tickets were purchased to fly from O’Hare Airport to New Orleans. How was the bill paid? Former Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller’s Road District credit card paid for the air fares … Continue reading
Looking at former Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Bob Miller’s township American Express credit card statements is getting curiouser and curiouser (with apologies to Lewis Carroll). First it was an expensive purse found on a credit card statement attached to the … Continue reading
The document filed with Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Andrew Gasser’s lawsuit to prevent the destruction of records was hard to read, so I typed in “Your Bag Your Way” and found the following: Here is how the page describes it: … Continue reading
Yesterday, in the article about the suit newly-elected Algonquin Township Road Commissioner Andrew Gasser’s filed against his predecessor Robert Miller, his wife Anna May and newly-elected Algonquin Township Clerk Karen Lukasik, I printed the part of the suit’s attachment concerning … Continue reading