Forensic accounting investigation of Illinois and Dupage County tax payer used funds for elephant hunting/poaching

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The Issue

From Adam Andrezejewski's Forbes Article on 9/10/2014: Responding to our Freedom of Information Act request for COD checkbook, the college produced a troubling record of payments. $27,931 for dues and fees flowed to the president’s private shooting club. Three global satellite phones were paid for each of the last three years so the president could “keep in touch” during his exotic hunting vacations (he shot an African elephant). 

COD made liberal use of this imprest accounting scheme: $26,100,000 on over 21,000 transactions to 5,613 vendors flowed through 467 separate fund accounts. Recently, COD Treasurer Thomas Glaser told the board during a special budget meeting in June that all financial transactions were listed in the board packet and posted online, but that just wasn’t the case.

The Decision Makers

United States Fish and Wildlife
United States Fish and Wildlife
DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office
DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office
Lisa Madigan - Illinois, Attorney general
Lisa Madigan - Illinois, Attorney general

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