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Report of the Office of Inspector General:
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Board of Ethics Lobbyist Registration Follow-Up Inquiry
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
City of Chicago
740 N. Sedgwick Sired. Suile 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 Telephone: (773)478-7790 Tax: (773)478-3949
May 8,2017
To the Mayor, Members of the City Council, City Clerk, City Treasurer, and residents of the City of Chicago:
The City of Chicago Office of Inspector General (OIG) has completed a follow-up to its March 2016 audit of the lobbyist registration process. Based on the Board of Ethics's (BOE) responses, OIG concludes that BOE has partially implemented corrective actions related to two of the audit findings and fully implemented corrective actions related to a third audit finding.
The purpose of the March 2016 audit was to review BOE's efforts to identify active lobbyists and to provide reasonable assurance as to the veracity of information in lobbyist disclosures. The audit also evaluated BOE's process for levying fines against late-registering lobbyists. Our audit found that,
BOE did not provide reasonable assurance as to its identification of all active lobbyists or the veracity of information in lobbyist disclosures;
process gaps and clerical errors related to hardcopy disclosures impeded BOE's ability to identify and levy fines against late filers; and
while BOE properly identified late, electronically-filed registrations in 2014, it declined to levy the full fine allowable under the Ethics Ordinance.
Based upon the results of our audit, we recommended that BOE,
exercise its authority to "recommend policies, procedures and practices desi...
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