Scandal Growing?

They're certainly taking their time at this:

• Three more Chicago Police Department employees, including a sergeant, face firing for fraudulently obtaining federal Paycheck Protection loans during the pandemic.

  The new actions bring to 11 the number of sustained PPP fraud cases culminating from internal investigations conducted by retiring Inspector General Deborah Witzburg.

  She’s accusing the sergeant of obtaining a pair of PPP loans totaling nearly $40,000, along with a separate small-business loan for $6,000. The sergeant’s former partner also obtained a PPP loan after submitting a loan application with identical information. The third employee is a police civilian.

  Three more cases are awaiting responses from city department heads. Four other “completed sustained cases” will be going out in the next few days, and Witzburg said she is “on track to close at least” a dozen additional cases over the next 60 days.

  After repeated clashes with Mayor Brandon Johnson on a host of ethics issues, Witzburg decided not to seek another term. Her four-year term expires in April.

  That means that she will leave office long before 80 additional PPP fraud cases in various stages of investigation have been brought to a close. 

Eighty more cases. We're thinking this is now being slow-walked through the media in order to paint the Department is as bad a light as possible over as long a time frame as possible running up to the election next year. 

There might even be some Contract negotiations coming up that would be adversely impacted by dragging these cases out when the FOP and PBPA ask for raises or work rule changes.

And two of the names currently under investigation - the sons of high ranking former exempt members? One has to wonder where they learned their corrupt ways, right?