Zion Supervisor: Daughter Was on Township Phone Plan, Expense Paid Back
ICPR Executive Director Sarah Brune was quoted in this article
via – The Chicago Tribune
“Zion Township Supervisor Cheri Neal has publicly acknowledged that her daughter’s cellphone bill was being paid with township funds, but she said she regularly reimbursed the payments on her expense reports.
‘On every single expense report, it is deducted,’ Neal said during a Town Board meeting Tuesday evening. ‘The amount that is charged for that phone, it is on my expense report.’
‘The township never paid a penny for that cellphone. I paid it every single solitary month.’
The cellphone issue was part of a long list of allegations against Neal that surfaced during her recent successful campaign for re-election. She defeated challengers Robert Surano and John Idleburg, winning about 61 percent of the vote. Idleburg, a retired federal investigator with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, took out a series of advertisements in the Zion-Benton News accusing Neal of misusing township funds, citing documents he received through Freedom of Information Act requests.”
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