Office of Inspector General
City of Chicago
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Quarterly Report of the Office of Inspector General
First Quarter 2014
April 15,2014
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Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N Sedgwick, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773)478-7799 Fax: (773) 478-3949
April 15, 2014
To the Mayor, Members of the City Council, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, and the residents of the City of Chicago:
Enclosed for your review is the public report on the operations of the City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) during the first quarter of 2014, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago.
The first quarter of 2014 brought closure to two federal criminal prosecutions that originated with OIG inquiries into frauds on City programs. In March, long-time City contractor Jesse Brunt was sentenced to a jail term of 17 months for defrauding the City's Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) program. The sentence, which stemmed from charges brought by the U.S. Attorney's Office following a joint FBI-OIG investigation, included an order of restitution to the City of nearly $1 million. A separate long-running federal prosecution which concluded during the quarter arose from a joint FBI-OIG investigation into the operation of a sham minority-owned cable television installation business that obtained $8.3 million in subcontracts from a cable company that serves residents on the city's north side. A federal district judge imposed prison sentences on the lead defendants and terms of probation for coconspirators. The judge, who described the scheme as a "cynical manipulation" of a program, "designed to enhance business ...
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