The Unraveling Of Sauk Village’s Government Rivals Some Of The Most Egregious Cases Of Municipal Corruption In Recent History.

Like Detroit’s Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who embezzled public funds and manipulated contracts for personal gain, Mayor Derrick Burgess, according to sources, has allegedly engaged in unauthorized financial transactions, bypassed legal hiring procedures, and funneled taxpayer dollars into legal defenses instead of essential services. In Dixon, Illinois, Comptroller Rita Crundwell orchestrated the largest municipal fraud in […]