Able
to go and convince a state worker to give me a hand. She did a 4-year audit of
the Clerk's Office in Crown Point. This showed the gap between the county and
the state. Monies from Forfeiture Bail Money. Money that is targeted for the
"Common School Fund."
"All
we need is a crack," Don Cooley would tell me every now and then. Cooley
was 3 Letter Boyz who worked white collar crime & coined the phrase
"King Kong is going down from a small virus".
Entry
point - Street has been bird-dogging a story about a "water hole" in
the Lake County Clerk's Office, Forfeiture Bail Money. The Clerk's Office never
got a clean bill of health from prior SBOA audits during Mike Brown's first 2
terms as clerk. Then he sat out four years working at the Clerk’s office. TBC.
"I'm
back. “Mikey Brown got elected Lake County Clerk by a caucus when
"Lorenzo" passed away as clerk. The crack came when Street read a
piece in the newspaper. The county had to pay $20,000 to have him bonded. Tom
Philpot cost $4,00 to be bonded? Bochinche out there was allegation of issues
with that forfeiture bail money.
