Willie Wilson Hands Out $100K, Reform Group Files Complaint with State Over Prior Cash Giveaway
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Via – Chicago Tribune
“Mayoral candidate Willie Wilson again handed out more than $100,000 Wednesday to help Cook County residents pay their property taxes, a practice he said he will continue unless a law gets passed that makes him stop.
Hours later, the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform announced it had filed a complaint against Wilson with the State Board of Elections, arguing that Wilson violated campaign finance law when he did not report an earlier giveaway of more than $200,000 in cash and checks at a South Side church.
The organization said in a news release that the Wilson mayoral campaign should have reported the money distributed at the July 22 event as an in-kind political contribution because it “was of material value to the campaign.”
While the Wilson campaign has maintained that the nonprofit Dr. Willie Wilson Foundation is a completely separate organization from the political one, the ICPR noted that the two groups have used the same spokesman and that scenes from the July 22 event were shown on the Wilson for Mayor political campaign Facebook page.”
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