John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs Stories

Supreme Court disqualified entire 3rd Circuit – Moves whistleblower trial to Sangamon County

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | Sep 21, 2023

The Illinois Supreme Court ordered the civil trial of Robert Dorman and Douglas Hulme v. Madison County et al, to be heard in the Seventh Judicial Circuit, which includes Sangamon County.

Madison County Sanitary District: Break the law – Change the law

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | Aug 4, 2023

Once more, Governor Pritzker has signed a bill making what used to be unauthorized compensation, authorized.

IBEW and other unions borrowed county voting machines, ballots, absentee envelopes

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | May 17, 2023

While Debbie Ming-Mendosa was the Madison County Clerk, she permitted the IBEW Union Local 749, Carpenters Local 664, and Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 553 to use public funds, property, and credit for nonpublic purposes.

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Improper blending/comingling of public body and nonprofit (part 2)

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | Apr 25, 2023

This article is Part 2 of our concerns that the public body of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County is being “blended” or comingled with a nonexistent nonprofit (searches of the IRS Charity Database yield no results) of the same name and used to perpetuate the false notion that an employee of the public body can chair a meeting of the public body while prohibiting actual members of the public body from chairing their own meetings.

Improper blending/comingling of public body and nonprofit (part 1)

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | Apr 25, 2023

This two-part article explains our concern that the public body of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County is being “blended” or comingled with a nonexistent nonprofit (searches of the IRS Charity Database yield no results) of the same name and used to perpetuate the false notion that an employee of the public body can chair a meeting of the public body while prohibiting actual members of the public body from chairing their own meetings.

Employee provided false information to Veterans Assistance Commission

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | Apr 25, 2023

During the April 5, 2023, meeting of the alleged Executive Board, Bradley Levite, Superintendent of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County (“VACMC”) was discussing the process to review and update the VACMC Bylaws from 2017, and from all appearances is setting the VAC up for either failure, or a long, embarrassing, and needlessly drawn-out process.

Employee prohibits commission board members from conducting meeting; says new law doesn’t apply

By John Kraft & Kirk Allen, Edgar County Watchdogs | Apr 18, 2023

The March 16, 2023, scheduled meeting of the full commission of the Veterans Assistance Commission of Madison County (“VACMC”) was something you would have to witness in person to believe.