Beetlejuice report issued, Pelosi
Lori Lightfoot’s report on Tiffany Henyard has been released. Refresher: Miss Tiff is the so-called “super-mayor” of Dolton, IL – in her time in office she has spent money like water, ignores the aldermen, and in general acts like she is auditioning for a bad blaxploitation movie, up to and including a large personal bodyguard staff. Where is Shaft when you need him? The report ain’t pretty.
Dolton, Illinois, Mayor Tiffany Henyard’s administration was engaged in a “systematic effort” to cover up the Illinois town’s financial situation as Henyard and other officials failed to track the spending of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to an investigation by former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Lightfoot said the Village of Dolton received some $3 million in payments from the American Rescue Plan, hundreds of thousands of which went missing without receipts. Henyard failed to appoint an official to track how the funds were spent, as required by the Treasury Department, according to Lightfoot’s report.
Hope someone at the Federal level is paying attention…this is an easy bust on a platter.
The city’s credit card spending also spiked to $779,638 in 2023, also with little to no tracking.
“Many of the credit card expenditures have no accompanying receipt, and the statements alone provide limited information about the purchases,” the report says, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
City credit cards were also used to pay for large trips to Las Vegas in both 2022 and 2023, and the report claims, “There is no evidence that any business development opportunities came to the village as a result of either of these two trips.” Fox News
A fairly typical example of how she does things – a local business with three locations was due to have its licenses renewed in November. Henyard wouldn’t sign (it’s supposed to be a rubberstamp, btw) until dragged into court. She swore she would sign them, then signed only two, and had to be taken back to court to sign the third – at which hearing she didn’t even show up until a half-hour late. (That got her an ‘indirect criminal contempt of court’ ruling, too.)
She should have seen the writing on the wall when Lori Lightfoot was hired. Henyard thought she could hide malfeasance and misconduct from a former mayor of Chicago? Chicago? That’s comparable to a one-legged kid trying to steal a base on a major league catcher.
And anyone paying attention to the market is hearing of Deep Seek, a Chinese AI blamed for creating havoc in the financial world.
US stocks dropped sharply Monday — and chipmaker Nvidia lost nearly $600 billion in market value — after a surprise advancement from a Chinese artificial intelligence company, DeepSeek, threatened the aura of invincibility surrounding America’s technology industry.
US companies are spending billions on AI – Deep Seek supposedly cost only a few million.
It presented a ChatGPT-like AI model called R1, which has all the familiar abilities, operating at a fraction of the cost of OpenAI’s, Google’s or Meta’s popular AI models. The company said it had spent just $5.6 million on computing power for its base model, compared with the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars US companies spend on their AI technologies. CNN
Now, where I come from $600,000,000,000 is a big hickey for ANY company, and I sure wouldn’t want to be the fella owning their stock. But, on the bright side:
US Representative Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul Pelosi has cashed in to the tune of $38 million thanks to some very smart investments, with some alleging that the centi-millionaire couple might be making their own luck.
This comes on the back of the much-discussed Nvidia blowout, which saw over $1 trillion in overhyped stock value disintegrate into thin air yesterday.
“Speaker Pelosi does not own any stocks,” her spokesperson told Fox of the trades, “and she has no prior knowledge or subsequent involvement in any transactions.”
That’s an almost comical excuse, of course — she might not have personally made the trades, but her husband, with whom she lives and has nine grandchildren, did. Though the Pelosis can’t technically make trades based on insider data, there’s nothing prohibiting the couple from buying or selling stocks, and the dubious timing is drawing scrutiny from all sides of the political spectrum. Futurism
Even AOC is crying foul over this… as well anyone should. Almost $40,000,000 to the good i a few days?
Tiffany Henyard was in a throw down on Tuesday night during a town hall meeting where one of her constituents called her a bitch and called for a vote to remove her from office. She launched across the room and went full fisticuffs. Her boyfriend got a serving of ass kicking as well when he squared up. No arrests were made.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/dolton-mayor-tiffany-henyard-involved-board-meeting-brawl-between-boyfriend-activist
As they say, ya get what ya vote for .. The people of Dalton are obviously not all that bright, because they elected this clown.. I don’t have much sympathy now that they’re upset about her behaving the way she does.. They’ll probably use the same criteria next time voting season comes around.
WORLDSTAR!
DEI in action, just with an election rather than hiring.
There’s a Waffle House in Dolton????
The town is $3.6 million in debt…
“Among the expenses contributing to the giant deficit was more than $43,000 spent on Amazon in a single day by Henyard.”
AND she’s running for reelection!!!
And based on the apparent lack of intelligence of the average voter in Dalton, I bet she wins big.
But IF she loses, I bet she’ll throw a World Record shit-fit throwing her ACME®️ Victim Card™️ at supersonic speed!
And I bet she was using city credit cards for that Amazon shopping spree.
Money-making opportunity, pay-per-view: Townhall meetings run as MMA events.
“Are you not entertained?!”
Nothing to see here…just demonrat politicians doing demonrat things. Move along, Citizen! And yes…there are republicunt politicians that are just as guilty. They are all equally worthless to me. Make tar and feathering great again.
IMO asking ex-Mayor Beetlejuice to investigate “Supermayor” Henyard is akin to having a coyote investigate a raccoon about attempted break-ins on the henhouse!
I read, can’t find presently, but apparently good ol Nancy sold a bunch of Nvidia stock just before it tanked. Amazing that her buy/sell intuition is that keen.
Nan doesn’t…but hubby does. A lot.
Fruits from the same tree. They both benefit.
I’ve read hubby is a bit light footed…
Judging from his pic, he likes the rough stuff.
That was his DUI pic when he wrecked his Porsche. There was a male in the car with him but, his name is in none of the reports. Pauly likes the young ones and rough stuff.
Roadie swordfight??
For ya’s info…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolton,_Illinois
Might say acorns don’t drop far from dis tree…
The more I read about her, the redder I feel myself getting with rage:
“Henyard’s annual salary as supervisor is $224,000, equal to her predecessor’s since 2017. At Henyard’s urging, in December 2023 the township adopted a resolution that will result in a future 90% decrease to the supervisor’s salary. This decrease is only to come into effect for the next supervisor, meaning that the supervisor salary will remain the same as long as Henyard’s tenure continues. While Henyard will retain a salary $224,000 so long as she, as the incumbent, continues to hold the office of township supervisor, any successor will be paid $22,400 per year for the same position.”
Yah so deincentivize anybody from wanting to run against you or take the office since the victory comes with a pay cut.
Honestly, if she wins reelection the denizens get what they deserve.