The watchdog overseeing agencies under Gov. J.B. Pritzker has referred 177 cases to law enforcement in which there was “reasonable cause to believe” a state worker “improperly obtained” a federal pandemic business relief loan, according to a report released Tuesday. The specifics of the alleged fraud likely won’t be known until reports on those cases are issued, a process than can take months. .
appearance [interpreter] i think to pieces boss was mr. president who tried to convince himself in the public that he won when he had in fact lost the election. and what you heard mark meadows explain in court today was that he was acting in that call as almost a negotiator because there was active litigation between the trump campaign and the state regarding the election results. but raffensperger, with their he considered that when he said no, that s not what that was. that was in his terms and extraordinary kind of pressure campaign underway. you cover the white house back then, meadows was arguing that he was just doing his job as chief of staff. what was that guy s job every day? what did he do? just imagine having that job, steph, if only because there had been very few chiefs of staff who had to serve a master that constantly wanted the reassurance that everything that he was proposing, illegal, improper, against the federal regulations, against federal policy, against t
of even national security or previous diplomatic treaties, that he was seeking donald trump was seeking for mark meadows to endorse all of those acts. no matter how wild, no matter how improper. and in this instance, what i think was the most interesting, steph, about mark meadows testimony was that he said essentially, i didn t really believe all the fraud allegations that were coming in, but i believe that some could have some validity and some signature verification needed to happen in georgia. that s his excuse for being on the call. but i think phil is exactly right, and he and i live this. which is that, mark meadows had to play the role of policing the king. he was a courtier, essentially. a court player who had to make sure the boss was happy. that the emperor thought his clothes were gorgeous. that was a role he played over,
relied upon. so it is interesting how he s trying to paint the whole picture of the mark meadows show trying to land the plane and keeping everybody in order doing my job. absolutely, ali. and what is interesting about the landing the plane statement is that while meadows testified in court the other day that he didn t necessarily believe all of the fraud allegations, but he felt like it was his job to be with the president, to figure out if some of them were true. what he was saying behind closed doors in the white house was, landing the plane was let s get to transition. donald trump is going to keep complaining there is a rigged election but we re going to be transitioning and leaving this white house on january 20th. that is what landing the plane meant to many of mark meadows compatriots in the white house which were essentially, i don t want to say indulging donald trump, but sometimes sort of
EMEA Morning Briefing: Shares Set for Gains Amid -2- -Today at 12:17 am marketscreener.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from marketscreener.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.