Federal grand jury subpoena issued in January seeks records on campaign funds controlled by the south suburban lawmaker and Calumet City mayor.
Illinois state Rep. Thaddeus Jones, who doubles as the mayor of Calumet City, is under federal criminal investigation for tax issues involving his campaign funds, according to a law enforcement source and records obtained by the Tribune.
Then-Calumet City Ald. Thaddeus Jones leaves the Downey Park polling place after voting in 2003. Jones, who is now a state representative, is under investigation over tax issues involving campaign funds, according to sources. The investigation comes to light as Jones, a Democrat from Calumet City who has represented the 29th legislative district since 2011, is running for reelection in a contested race in the June 28 primary. He was elected mayor of Calumet City last year and before that was the first Black alderman of the suburb’s 3rd Ward.
The election board on Thursday supplied the Tribune with copies of the hundreds of pages of records it sent to the U.S. attorney’s office in response to the January subpoena. The records show Jones was represented at the June 2017 hearing by high-powered Democratic election attorney Michael Kasper, who argued it was “not unusual” to spend that much money at the Hooters given that it was over 33 months and that the complainants’ characterization that it amounted to an “excessive number of visits” was a “subjective term.”
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