A new report shows Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s vast investment portfolio includes a dozen companies that earned billions of dollars in state contracts.
finds at least 12 cases where there are potential conflicts of interest. One of Prtizker’s largest partnerships is with Centene Corporation’s subsidiary Meridian Health Plan of Illinois, which has been paid $20.6 billion for Medicaid contracts, according to Better Government Association .
“As we have said numerous times and is made clear in the documents prepared by the attorneys, Governor Pritzker’s trust is blind … Yet again the BGA seems to be suggesting that because the governor is following the law, he is doing something wrong.”
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