{"id":159908,"date":"2024-08-13T07:00:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159908"},"modified":"2024-08-12T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T19:52:50","slug":"when-lori-lightfoot-sez-youre-crooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159908","title":{"rendered":"When Lori Lightfoot sez you&#8217;re crooked&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137903 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lightfoot-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lightfoot-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lightfoot-500x290.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lightfoot.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151834 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mayor-dolton-tiffany-henyard-2022a-1705153017.3737-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"mayor-dolton-tiffany-henyard-2022a\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mayor-dolton-tiffany-henyard-2022a-1705153017.3737-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/mayor-dolton-tiffany-henyard-2022a-1705153017.3737.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 223px) 100vw, 223px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today we are following up on Dolton, Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard. She&#8217;s the mayor of a small Chicago suburb who seemed to think becoming mayor was equivalent to having the town&#8217;s assets dumped into her checking account, and in a coup0le of years has run a small town bazillions into debt. The town got fed up and hired Lori Lighfoot (who as the ex-Chicago mayor herself does not come cheap) to look into the spending spree.\u00a0 This is what <del datetime=\"2024-08-12T19:21:42+00:00\">Beetlejuice<\/del> Lightfoot found:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Thursday night, Lightfoot revealed to residents the extent of Mayor Henyard&#8217;s alleged misuse. Lightfoot stated that in April 2022, Dolton&#8217;s general fund balance was $5.61 million.<\/p>\n<p>By May 2024, the balance had dropped to a deficit of $3.65 million.<\/p>\n<p>Lightfoot also disclosed that Henyard used the village credit card to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair and other retailers.<\/p>\n<p>One jaw-dropping statement revealed that the embattled mayor had dropped $33,000 on Jan. 5, 2023 on Amazon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, my wife bows to NO BODY in spending&#8230; and even she wouldn&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The investigation revealed that two police officers had received overtime pay exceeding their annual salaries.<\/p>\n<p>One officer&#8217;s salary for fiscal year 2024 was $87,295, yet the officer received $114,800 in overtime pay. The second officer, with a salary of $73,515, received $102,077 in overtime pay for fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The reports have been a pressure point for the city, which has a population of slightly more than 20,000, according to a July 2023 estimate from the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in two years she spent $9,200,000 from a tax base of 20,000? Are all those residents Scrooge McDuck nephews?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The accusations of financial misdeeds have prompted an ongoing FBI investigation.<\/p>\n<p>She has also come under fire for an alleged sexual assault by one of her allies during a Las Vegas trip, where the alleged victim claims to have been fired after speaking out.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/scandal-plagued-illinois-mayors-expenses-054833106.html\">Fox News<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, Henyard is a Democrat so I do not expect much from the FBI investigation. But when Lori Lightfoot casts aspersions on a Chicago suburb, you KNOW something smells seriously amiss. Hopefully we&#8217;ll get another update one of these days with Henyard&#8217;s inmate number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today we are following up on Dolton, Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard. She&#8217;s the mayor of &hellip; <a title=\"When Lori Lightfoot sez you&#8217;re crooked&#8230;.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159908\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When Lori Lightfoot sez you&#8217;re crooked&#8230;.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213,185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}