The two year term of Harrisburg’s latest mayor (elected 2011) is now history…but it’s applicable because many believe the subject matter in the next “Read the Lead” posting is what prompted the resignation to begin with.
There are several factors that are keeping Eric Gregg under the microscope of scrutiny and have been for a number of months now, not the least of which is his appointment to the Illinois Prisoner Review Board by Governor Pat Quinn…on which the application, we learned after this article was produced for the print version last week, Gregg lied about his income and standing with public bodies within the state of Illinois.
This application was obtained via FOIA by one of the many State Senators who are looking into Gregg’s appointment, and which Disclosure obtained via FOIA to one of the Senators.
This is the article about those Senators and their efforts to gain control of the rampant abuse in the executive appointments that Quinn, and those before him, have taken advantage of for their own corrupt reasons.
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FORMER mayor Eric Gregg
HARRISBURG—It appears that Harrisburg Mayor Eric Gregg’s appointment by Governor Pat Quinn to the Prisoner Review Board is a violation of Illinois statute, and this, Disclosure has discovered, is not sitting well among some of Illinois’ State Senators.
Gregg, however, has asserted that he’s doing nothing wrong by not only holding the salaried public office of mayor (that he’s “donating back” his salary to some organization or charity notwithstanding, as the fact remains that he continues to be in office and on the payroll, as well as likely holding at least one other paying job), and has told those in his circle that Governor Pat Quinn’s office has told him “Take as much time as you want” before departing not only the mayoral office, but before quitting any other employment, while collecting a state salary of $85,886 annually.
However, that’s not how it’s supposed to work in the real world of black and white and laws that define what is right and what is wrong, known in Illinois as “compiled statutes.”
Among other things defined by statute 730 ILCS 3-3-1, it clearly states: “Each member of the Board shall serve on a full-time basis and shall not hold any other salaried public office, whether elective or appointive, nor any other office or position of profit, nor engage in any other business, employment, or vocation.”
“Violation of statute” is another term for “breaking the law.” And this has been an issue since the day it was announced that Gregg had been appointed the position, April 26, 2013, one that has heaped increasing pressure on Gregg and has created a situation in which he attempted to have Disclosure Publisher Jack Howser’s wife, Angela, arrested in mid-June (see related story).
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