From “BecauseScience” comes this timeline:
Madigan appears to have covered up for Franks’s sexual assault on his secretary which, according to her, took place in the Spring of 2015.
As I understand it, the Capitol staff actually work for Madigan and are assigned to the Representatives so she would have reported back to Madigan at the time if she reported it.
Yet it didn’t surface until the Spring of 2020 when Madigan’s own office was about to be raided.
He gave Franks up at that point to the newspaper’s FOIA request.
I surmize that someone, probably Madigan, tipped them off.
When Franks went down to Springfield to lobby for the bill that would have given him absolute power as County Board Chairman, there appears to have been a meeting with the secretary, Franks, and another legislator.
The secretary was observed to leave the office in tears and had words with Franks in the hallway.
From 2015 to when he ran for Chairman in 2016, Madigan would have had him by the short hairs, (literrally as well as figuratively) so his continuation in Springpatch would have no longer been tenable.
That is when he started making noises about the fake “pension scandal” involving County Board members in preparation for entry into local county level politics.
At that point, the 3 year statute of limitations on any criminal prosecutions would have expired based on her account of when it happened, which she wasnt too sure of.
The Sangamon County prosecutor later declined to prosecute, probably because the S/L had run at that point.
Has anyone seen Franks around since he left office?
Gee, imagine that!
Is Because Science Kenneallybird?
He has himself a new girlfriend
Kenneally can’t spell ‘science’. He thinks that ‘Mens Rea’ is the restroom at the Courthouse.
Jack Who?
Yes. Franks is at all the Realtor functions because he learned from Madigan on how to get rich by contesting taxes after being a vehicle to raising them.
He sends out letters asking people if they want to contest their taxes, has someone else do the work and takes a percentage of the fee.
He also was campaigning for Mahady for Clerk.
I think it’s safe to say he has no swagger or influence.
As far as ‘a new lady friend’ goes, I hope she likes to spoon on demand.
Franks is disgusting on several levels.
Besides contesting taxes he also “sells” time shares in the Ozarks and Panama.
Slap: That’s a good one.
Franks tried to ingratiate me.
He got spurned.
I removed every one if his signs from my rental properties.
Why the hell did he think he could just plant them without any permission?
Some weirdo yelled at me at one of my places when I was trashing his non-permission signs.
The moron said he was calling the cops.
I said “good!” But like the little whiney snowflake he was he just slunk away.
Panama time share huckster? Figures.