The Daily Herald (www.dailyherald.com/) has a Community News story online this morning on the estimated cost to McHenry County taxpayers for the probe into whether political work was conducted on the taxpayer's dime at the McHenry County State's Attorney's office.
The price tag for this probe is estimated to be $100,000. Attorney (and former Lake County judge) Henry Tonigan III grabbed the brass ring on this one. He was appointed as the special prosecutor and has already billed McHenry County $34,231 since September. The Finance Committee of the County Board is expected to ask the Board to authorize up to $100,000 for this little venture.
Who splits up the pie? Tonigan's Barrington firm, Kelleher & Buckley, and Attorney Thomas K. McQueen.
According to the article, State's Attorney Lou Bianchi "...repeatedly has denied the accusations."
Also according to the online article, "Tonigan has given no indication as to when he might wrap up his investigation, and did not return a call seeking comment last week."
Well, of course not. There is still $66,000 on the table; errr, I mean a lot of investigation yet to be done.
Too bad I didn't read this article sooner. I'd have attended the Finance & Audit Committee's meeting at 9:30AM. Well, that probably isn't where the fireworks will be. The next County Board meeting is Tuesday, March 2, 9:30AM.
The next Finance & Audit Committee meeting is Tuesday, March 9, 9:30AM. And the County Board meeting after that is Tuesday, March 16, 7:00PM.
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Well worth the expense.
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