ANOTHER F’nAround MILESTONE:
The supplemental civil rights filing wasn’t rejected.
Today, the Civil Rights Bureau confirmed that it received the supplemental complaint and will investigate it.
This supplemental goes far beyond the original IDFPR complaint.
It asks what happened after Illinois Department of financial and Professional Regulation, Office of executive inspector general, chicago police department, attorney registration and disciplinary commission and other institutions received reports involving witness pressure, recorded threats, ownership and licensing issues, and testimony describing more than $300,000 in witness related payments using money laundering language to explain why the payments supposedly were not a bribe by a nuEra Cannabis executive under oath.
It asks who received the reports.
Who routed them?
Who reviewed them?
Who decided not to intervene?
Who continued approving licenses and issuing good standing determinations?
Did the police not intervene because the officers who intimidated a witness were associated with CPD veteran Charles Williams a license holder of Mariworks LLC a social equity license being opened by nuEra Cannabis?
Why did ARDC defer lawyer investigations to protect interference with a case and allow the behavior to continue?
Did the Department of Agriculture not report because according to Bob Fitzsimmons under oath they gave him inside tracks for deals?
And whether any government actor participated in, enabled or knowingly ignored retaliation connected to my lawsuit and protected reporting after an elected official was caught on recording facilitating a death threats.
That is a difficult filing to read if your institution’s answer has always been, “We referred it back to the same department to handle itself.”
Yet the supplemental was not immediately dismissed as outside the Bureau’s authority.
It was officially placed into investigation.
That is not a final finding. It is not proof that the Attorney General agrees with every allegation. But it is another documented milestone showing that the questions survived the front door.
Remember Structural Gravity?
One complaint can be ignored.
One FOIA request can be delayed.
One referral can be sent back to the agency named in the complaint.
But every response creates another record. Every missed deadline creates another obligation. Every approval creates another decision maker. Eventually, the weight is no longer contained inside one department.
The structure begins examining itself.
I said years ago that the larger question would eventually become what government institutions did after they were told.
We have now reached that chapter.
Maybe the institutions clean their own house.
Maybe they explain every decision.
Maybe they decide they would rather defend those decisions in federal court.
Either way, the receipts are already organized.
Didn’t I explain exactly where the gravity was going?
Catch up on the timeline at F’nAround: