Office of Inspector General
City of Chicago
Report of the Office of Inspector General:
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Quarterly Report of the Office of Inspector General Third Quarter 2016
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October 2016
866-1G-TIPUNE (866-44S-4754) www.cliicagoinspectorgeneral.org
Joseph M. Ferguson Inspector General
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 M Sedgwick, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773) 478-7799 Fax: (773) 478-3949
October 15, 2016
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 third quarter of 2016, filed with the City Council pursuant to Section 2-56-120 of the Municipal Code of Chicago. The report includes summaries of investigations that resulted in the termination of four City employees, the dismissal of a contractor's employee, two vendor settlement agreements totaling $225,000, as well as the imposition of a 10-year federal prison sentence and $2 million restitution judgment against a former Managing Deputy Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation, John Bills, for his orchestration of one of the largest and longest kickback fraud schemes in the City's history. Last month OIG also published its draft 2017 audit plan, which includes potential audits into core City services and functions. We have already received helpful feedback on the draft plan, and we will continue to seek public comment through November. I hope you will visit our website today to review this plan and share with us your ideas for improving Chicago.
Heading into the final quarter of 2016, OIG and the City as a whole are moving forward with defining and creating a new system of police oversight. In the first stage of legislative reform, the Mayor and the ...
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