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He Chicago City He recently shared a video of his “gift room” after a surveillance group accused Mayor Brandon Johnson to accept inappropriate valuable gifts.
On Wednesday, the city also announced new protocols to receive gifts, along with a record and video of articles currently within its “gift room.”
The transparency attempt occurs after Inspector General Office (Oig) accused Johnson of accepting valuable gifts and not informing them.
The alleged unrelated gifts included jewelry, alcohol, airpods, designer bags and 14 -size shoes, which caused ethical concerns.
The Inspector General’s office accused the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson to inappropriately accept designer’s gifts. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg through Getty Images)
The new protocols, which entered into force on Tuesday, take into account that officials must adequately inform and record gifts within 10 days; store gifts in a designated area that can be seen publicly through video recording quarterly; and donate an excess of gifts.
The first video record was sent on Wednesday and outstanding artClothing, hats and shoes.
The footage tries to fight the IIG states that Johnson denied internal researchers Access to the room where the items were stored during an inspection not announced in November.
A written record contains 18 pages of articles, along with its location and the organization that donated the gifts.
“These procedures reaffirm the mayor’s commitment to ethical governance and transparency and guarantee a rapid dissemination of all gifts received in the name of the city,” according to a statement from the mayor’s office.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, was accused of incorrectly documenting the gifts of designers and at the same time block access to the “gift room” of the City Council, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago (Oig ). (Ciudad de Chicago)
Johnson previously accused the inspector general of an “erroneous characterization”, while insisted that he never personally benefited from any gift.
The OIG report listed the Hugo Boss Fusty links, a personalized PenA T -shirt of the National Football Team of the USA 2023, a gap bag in Gucci, a red kate spade and Carrucci Size 14 shoes from February 2, 2022 until March 20, 2024.
While it is seen in the video record, dated February 11, the online record does not take into account the bag, bag or shoes, until Wednesday.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, was accused of incorrectly documenting the gifts of designers and at the same time block access to the “gift room” of the City Council, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago (Oig ). (Ciudad de Chicago)
Other articles such as the links and the head of the head, although they are counted in the registry, do not list the organization or the person who donated the gift.
The Inspector General of the City of Chicago, Deborah Withzburg, told Fox News Digital on Wednesday night that only some articles are visible in the 22 -second video, presenting “practical challenges.”
“There are some visible things in the video that may be recognizable, but I don’t know if someone is in a position to look at that video and find the couple of Hugo Boss Chuff’s links or Montblanc’s personalized pen,” Witzburg said. “I don’t know if he lends himself to that. I’m not sure if he is destined to do it.”
According to Witzburg, the video does not serve as a substitute for public access, to which citizens are entitled.
He added that he is “deeply worried” for the fact that even the gifts recorded in recent days have no information about their donors.
The mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, was accused of incorrectly documenting the gifts of designers and at the same time block access to the “gift room” of the City Council, according to a report by the Office of the Inspector General of the City of Chicago (Oig ). (Ciudad de Chicago)
“That is still really problematic,” said Witzburg. “It does not suggest that, at least in that sense, we have progressed a lot … we talk a lot about the fact that the city of Chicago operates with this legitimacy deficit, and that for decades and generations, the city has not given anyone No reason to provide the government with the benefit of doubt.
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The concern is that gifts can be granted or received with the intention of affecting the decisions or actions of the city government, he explained.
“We cannot have a sign ‘for sale’ at the door of the town hall,” said Witzburg. “The ethics rules of the city contain these requirements on gifts, and there are very clear rules on how to handle the gifts accepted in the name of the city.”
Patrick McGovern, Greg Wehner and Alexis Mcadams of Fox News contributed to this report.
