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Publishers
Desk
2nd District candidate
Lewis visits area
This Issue of the City News is Dedicated to:
Sarah Washington the beautiful young woman who reached for the Stars.
Why is it that the Kankakee
County States Attorney, the
Illinois Attorney General
and the United States At-
torney General kept look-
ing the other way for de-
cades as offcials in Pem-
broke Township continued
to ignore county, state and
federal laws as they apply
to public accounting for tax
money?
So far Pembroke Township
and the Village of Hopkins
Park have continued the de-
cades long failure to issue
a Annual Reports of their
spending. Instead, those
responsible for the spend-
ing of public funds in the
two units of government
continue what appears to
be contrived charades and
nonsensical discussions
about hands being clean.
What causes law enforce-
ment offcials and funding
agencies to be satisfed
with such a poor level of
governmental accountabil-
ity for public funds?
Some offcials have told
the City News, off the re-
cord, that the failure for the
most part of the Kankakee
County States Attorney, the
Illinois States Attorney and
the United States Attorney
General to take actions
to adequately investigate
what appears to be the mis-
use of funds in Pembroke
Township is because the
administrations of there
are black!
So even though every oth-
er unit of government in the
United States, and there
are thousands, each one is-
sues an annual report each
year and have issued such
reports every year since
each was incorporated.
How do these public off-
cials get away with no level
of fnancial accountabil-
ity, how is it that nobody,
no other media except the
Kankakee City News has
raised the issue and why
is it that even the county,
state and federal funding
agencies pretend that there
are no requirements for f-
nancial accountability for
the spending of tax dollars
sent to Pembroke Town-
ship?
Why is it that for so many
years the community of
Pembroke has been sub-
jected to the lawlessness
associated with the blatant
disregard of the law by
those elected offcials who
are responsible for admin-
istering the funds directed
to Pembroke?
The classic example of
this level of failure to be ac-
countable for the spending
of township funds could
be defned as the situation
with the rehabilitation of
the former Nestles Plant
into what was supposed
to be a business incubator
at a cost of well over 5 mil-
lion dollars most of which
was supplied by state and
federal grants and almost
all of it spent with a Kanka-
kee development company
which refused to hire any
black workers residing in
the Pembroke community
saying that they were not
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Mondy, Innocent unless proven Guilty
News that former Pembroke Township Supervisor Leon Mondy
has been indicted for stealing $60,000 from the town caught
many in the area by surprise.
However, there are those and among them are the publishers of
the Kankakee City News who believe Mr. Mondy should be given
the beneft of the doubt. He, in our opinion, is innocent until or
unless he is proven guilty.
What we also fnd interesting, if not shameful, is that Mr.
Mondy would be the single person charged with stealing from
the Pembroke community when most who have been paying
attention to the money in the town know full well that there are
many more who have stolen much more from that community.
Look at the fve million dollars invested in the former Nestles
Plant that is yet to be opened. Everybody benefted from that
scam but the people of Pembroke.
Look at the $400,000 missing from the Emergency Shelter
that was never built.
What about the $600,000 missing from the Federal Police
Grant?
What about the sixty million dollars missing from the never
built Pembroke Prison?
Leon Mondy innocent
unless proven guilty
bottom of page...
Marcus Lewis write-in story
Publishers Desk, page 2 and
page 10. Time to send Kelly
back to New York...