When it comes to not only disgraced former President Donald Trump, but anyone who considers themselves Donald’s “people,” the corruption and depths of depravity they’re willing to go to literally has no limit.
According to a new report from the Chicago Tribune, an Illinois state agency was tasked with reviewing the tax records of Donald J. Trump, only for one former official with the entity to illegally delete files and records from his official account amid an investigation headed by the Inspector General.
The report reveals that Mauro Glorioso, the former executive director of Illinois’ Property Tax Appeal Board, was involved in an investigation being conducted by the Office of Executive Inspector General when he found himself suddenly removed from his position by Illinois Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker.
According to the report, it was an anonymous employee who sounded the alarm on Glorioso’s blatant violation of the agency’s policies by illegally deleting the records pertaining to Donald Trump.
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The report reads:
An unnamed employee reported to the board’s chairman and the inspector general’s office on Oct. 14 that he had discovered a large number of files, including documents related to the still pending investigation, had been deleted from Glorioso’s folder on the agency’s computer network earlier that month.”
Ultimately, 200 appeal-related emails, deleted on October 20th, 2020, were discovered via the inspector general investigation. This reportedly occurred just 3 short days after Glorioso has been interviewed in connection to the complaint. On the 5th of October, additional dozens of emails were deleted.
Many of the files were ultimately recovered through the state Department of Innovation and Technology’s backup database. Glorioso has maintained that he’s innocent of any wrongdoing, claiming in his affidavit that he “only deleted the files because he knew backups existed and were in the state’s possession,” according to the report.
“No one from the (Property Tax Appeal Board) IT department, or any other individual, had ever suggested to me that such a practice was not allowed,” the accused’s affidavit reads. “To the best of my knowledge, backups of any emails or files that I deleted on my work computer are available today at the (Department of Innovation and Technology) should anyone wish to view them.”
However, the Chicago Tribune notes that all employees of the agency had been explicitly instructed to preserve all relevant records.
Michael O’Malley, the new Executive Director for the agency, released a statement claiming that he could not speak to the findings of the investigation, “other than to say that this board will continue to hold its staff and fellow board members to the highest standards of ethics and professionalism.”
“Additionally, in an email to staff, I instructed PTAB staff to read the published OEIG report and use it as an example of what not to do during the course of an OEIG investigation.”
You can read the full report here.
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