Former SWANCC Exec In Hot Water, Allegedly Stole $900K
Christopher Brooke Beal could face up to 30 years in prison after submitting false expense claims.
The former executive director of the Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook Country (SWANCC)—which manages garbage collection for 23 suburban communities— has been charged with stealing more than $900,000 over a four-year period, Cook County State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez announced today. Christopher Brooke Beal, 47, of Chicago, began working with the Glenview-based public agency in 1993. After a Sept. 2010 audit found an “inexplicable increase in employee related expenses,” Beal allegedly forged an email from another SWANCC official approving the expenses, according to the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. Beal resigned approximately one month later. “No one is more angry, frustrated and disappointed about these circumstances than this …
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11:57 am on Saturday, March 10, 2012
How is it possible that the Skokie Mayor and SWANCC Chairman George Van Dusen did not know $900,000.00 was misappropriated? I guess the phrase, follow the money is an understantement here! Nevertheless I have to say it, follow the money! more ›