Mayor comments for first time after his office released long-confidential letter that accused city treasurer of misconduct and ethical violations.
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and city treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin talk to reporters outside his office at City Hall on May 15, his first day in office.
Johnson’s administration late last month decided to end the city’s long legal fight to keep confidential a 2020 letter that laid out the accusations against Conyears-Ervin by an attorney for two former treasurer employees whom Conyears-Ervin fired.
The December 2020 letter, which called for Conyears-Ervin to be investigated, said the city treasurer abused her power, violated the state’s whistleblower act and misused taxpayer resources by using government workers to run errands for her, hiring a former police officer to be her personal bodyguard and pressuring public employees to hold events benefiting political allies, among other accusations.
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