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* From a Belleville News-Democrat article last month…

A month-long governor’s office investigation of state parole board member Adam P. Monreal’s bankruptcy, in which he reported income less than half his actual board salary, has been expanded to include a review of annual state economic interest statements he filed since being named to the board in 2010.

In each of five economic statements filed during 2011-2015, Monreal, 48, of Chicago, reported he was paid for work not connected to his parole board duties, despite a state law prohibiting such employment for parole board members, who earn more than $85,000 a year. […]

As a parole board member, Monreal, an attorney and former assistant prosecutor in Cook County, receives a salary of $85,855. In 2011 he was the board’s chairman and received $91,400. He filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection in May of that year listing his salary as $38,673 and his position as “director, state of Illinois penitentiary,” according to bankruptcy court documents. The bankruptcy was approved four months later. […]

In [state parole board member Eric Gregg’s] pending bankruptcy, he listed an income of approximately $48,000 from an energy business in addition to his parole board salary. That was potentially a violation of the law prohibiting parole board members from receiving additional income.

Gregg has since stated in a court deposition that the $48,000 listed on his bankruptcy, which is pending, was a mistake, and should have been filed under his wife Patti’s name, even though she was listed as a “non-filing spouse.” Patti Gregg is a full-time teacher’s aide.

* And from the BND on Friday…

Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday removed a member of the state parole board and another submitted his resignation a month after the Belleville News-Democrat reported on improprieties in their federal bankruptcy filings and economic interest statements filed with the state.

Former Harrisburg mayor Eric E. Gregg, a Republican, was removed from the Illinois Prisoner Review Board and former board chairman Adam P. Monreal, a Chicago Democrat, resigned effective in two weeks, according to a written statement released by the governor’s press office Friday afternoon.

The governor’s office began investigating the two after news stories by the News-Democrat.

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 10:59 am

Comments

Why are they all going bankrupt? Seems like they get paid well…

Comment by burbanite Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:03 am
Why is the guv’s office doing the investigation? Shouldn’t it be the AG or Inspector General?

Comment by Northsider Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:07 am
The Governor seems like a very accepting guy. He is good at accepting resignations.

Comment by 360 Degree TurnAround Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:10 am
“BND adds two more scalps”

Better: two more wins. Or two more trophies. Or two more victories.

Thanks.

Comment by Anonymousse Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:13 am
This is not on the Governor. This is on the two that are in the positions they are in, leading to their own resignations.

However,

Candidate Rauner made a point that Governor Quinn owned everything, as is the custom of all, all governors, that what happens under your watch, is owned by you one way or another.

If anything, it’s BND doing their job fulfilling their role, and the repercussions of the BND reporting on their findings.

Comment by Oswego Willy Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:16 am
Eric Gregg has also played footsies with the Dems when it’s convenient for him, so perhaps this isn’t such a surprise.

Comment by Team Sleep Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:16 am
==- Team Sleep - Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:16 am:==

Because all corruption is from Democrats. Behold this wisdom!

Comment by Precinct Captain Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:21 am
That’s not my point, PC. If the Governor’s office was in on this, then perhaps Mayor Gregg’s past dalliances didn’t quite help him.

Comment by Team Sleep Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:25 am
I read Eric Gregg and all I can think of is one of the most incompetent National League umpires of my lifetime. Truly missed many a good ballgame.

One of the fattest, too. And for umpires, that’s saying something. His inability to clean the plate during a game was directly related to his mastery of it off the field.

Great shoe-leather reporting by BND. Always refreshing to see something other than “one side said, than the other side said.” Facts can speak for themselves.

Comment by Wordslinger Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 11:40 am
Rauner learns of improprieties. He takes immediate and decisive action. He doesn’t sweep it under the rug. This is what he was elected to do, what he promised to do. Good for the Rauner Administration.

Comment by phocion Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:08 pm
N-sider: === Why is the guv’s office doing the investigation? Shouldn’t it be the AG or Inspector General? ===

Bankruptcy is a federal proceeding. Falsifications in BK are more likely the U.S. Atty and federal agencies that investigate for U.S. Atty. Maybe that’s been done and closed.

Comment by Anon III Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 12:37 pm
Word, I thought the same thing when I saw the name Eric Gregg.

So appointed parole board members cannot hold any other sort of employment? I presume that is because of the potential for bribery or fraud. I had no idea that this was a full-time gig. Interesting.

Comment by Jake From Elwood Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 1:07 pm
Ok so Eric Greg was removed from the Parole board by the Governor….maybe Rich Miller should ask why a IYC Harrisburg employee by the name of Wayne Dunn was appointed to the same parole board when he was on a STRESS leave from the facility. If he can’t handle working at IYC how can he be qualified to be appointed to the parole board? Please someone answer this question…..maybe Mr Dunn is one of the Governors SUPERSTARS except when a stress leave is utilized as a PAID vacation at taxpayer expense????

Comment by Bushwacker Tuesday, Oct 6, 15 @ 9:18 pm