Exclusive: Oak Lawn Served With Federal Grand Jury Subpoena
The federal subpoena asks for all records related to hiring of current village legal counsel, Querrey and Harrow, from 2009.
Federal prosecutors are looking into the events surrounding Oak Lawn's use of village attorneys, Oak Lawn Patch has learned. An attorney representing the Village of Oak Lawn has confirmed that the U.S. Attorney’s office served the village with a federal grand jury subpoena. Eric Wilson, of Godfrey and Kahn in Madison, Wis., who is leading the investigation into possible overbillings and malpractice by the village’s former legal counsel, said the village was served with the federal subpoena on June 24. The federal grand jury subpoena requests meeting minutes and audio tapes from the Oak Lawn Village Board's executive sessions between May and August 2009, as well as information relating to the changing of village attorneys in 2009. “The …
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William J Murphy
7:37 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011
joker Why weren't any of the other Trustees and Village Manager asking for other proposals? Do you think had Carol asked for it to go out for proposals the others would've agreed? IF the fees were so high, from the previous attorneys, why in the world were they paid without being questioned? Surely the Finance Committee should have caught this and nipped it in the bud, if it's true. There have … more ›