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Lightfoot PAC Paid Consultant While She Worked at the Mayor’s Office

by Matt Chapman October 17, 2021October 17, 2021

ayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration may have violated political hiring rules when it brought Joanna Klonsky into the Mayor’s Office as a pro bono policy consultant beginning in 2019. Klonsky continued to be paid by Lightfoot’s political action committee (PAC) for more than a year after she began working for the Mayor’s Office.  A source familiar […]

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