Who's hustling at MCSD?

For your late-night reading enjoy, may I recommend Zane Seipler's blog McHenry County Sheriff's Race 2014 to you?

It is especially interesting now, in view of the letters to about 30 deputies and correctional officers on Thursday of last week from EEO Officer Don Leist. Leist also seems to serve as Nygren's staff attorney, even though no such position is needed and should not be funded by the McHenry County Board. (Republican candidate for Sheriff Bill Prim has said he will eliminate that position, which is currently costing taxpayers more than $103,000/year.

Read Zane's article titled "Pros and Cons to Truth Telling When Meeting With Leist Part 1". You'll quickly see why deputies and COs are in a sweat about meeting with Don Leist.

Also, read "The Heat Is On" right below it for the criminal activities alleged against Nygren. That's some serious stuff.

Zane Seipler is a deputy who was fired for complaining about racial profiling. (Sheriff Nygren said there was a different reason, but Nygren's attorney told a Federal judge in Rockford that that is exactly why Seipler was fired.) After a long appeal process of the arbitrator's ruling that Zane should have gotten only a three-day unpaid suspension (not termination), during which Nygren was on the losing end of appeals all the way up to the Illinois Supreme Court (which refused to hear the case), Zane went back to work. And then Nygren kicked him out again. This second termination is going through the arbitration process, and I'll bet Zane beats Nygren again.

In Zane's Federal lawsuit against MCSD and Nygren Scott Milliman was deposed and gave sworn testimony about some serious alleged misdeeds by Nygren. Now, in Scott Milliman's Federal case, about 30 deputies and correctional officers are listed as witnesses and expect to be subpoenaed for depositions, if they have not already been.