Immediate Explanation

Transparencyusa.org is a site that tracks political donations - kind of a "reveal the network" type site, and it was brought to our attention that there appears to be a strange donation made a few months ago (click for larger view):

 

That appears (APPEARS) to be a $10,000 donation to the Illinois Governor's Mansion Association ....from what is listed as "Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge."

Just so everyone is aware, there are six Lodges with the word Chicago in their title:

• Chicago John Dineen Lodge of course (Lodge 7);
• Chicago Revenue Investigators (Lodge 279);
• Chicago Ridge Police (Lodge 12)
• Chicago State University Police (Lodge 277);
• Eugene Stack West Chicago (Lodge 85)
• University of Chicago Police (Lodge 225) 

 There are also thirteen FOP lodges with the word "Chicago" in their address (eleven "Chicago," one as "West Chicago" and one as "Chicago Ridge").

While we would hope that this is merely sloppy record keeping and documentation on the part of Transparency.org, we can state with near certainty that at least four of those six lodges don't have anywhere near the resources to be tossing $10K at someone who has repeatedly demonstrated a complete disregard for American citizens, public safety and the rule of law.