The city of Chicago recently shared a video of the “gift room” after accusing a group of monitoring of mayor Brandon Johnson of accepting incorrect valuable gifts.
On Wednesday, the city also announced new protocols to receive gifts, along with a record and video of the elements currently inside the “gift room”.
The attempt to transparency comes after the office of the Inspector General (Oig) Johnson was accused of accepting valuable gifts and failing to report them.
The alleged, irregular gifts included jewelry, alcohol, air, designed handbags, and 14 men's shoes, pushing moral concerns.
The new protocols, which came into effect on Tuesday, noticed that officials should report and record gifts properly within 10 days; Store gifts in a dedicated area that can be publicly displayed by recording a separate video; And donate excessive gifts.
The first video record was sent on Wednesday and the work of art, clothes, hats and shoes.
The footage is trying to fight Oig's allegations that Johnson has deprived the internal investigators of reaching the room where the elements were stored during an unannounced inspection in November.
The written record contains 18 pages of elements, along with its location and the institution that donated gifts.
“These procedures reaffirm the mayor's commitment to moral and transparency and ensuring a rapid disclosure of all the gifts that were received on behalf of the city,” according to a statement issued by the mayor's office.
Johnson previously accused the Inspector General of “misunderstanding”, while insisting that he had not personally benefited from any gifts.
The Oig Report I included Hugo Boss Cuffs Links, the Montblink Montelink, the American National Football Team shirt 2023, a Gucci load bag, a red bag of Kate Speed and the Karachi 14 of February 2022, until March 20, 2024.
While monitoring the video record, on February 11, the online record does not explain a load, a portfolio or shoes, as of Wednesday.
Other elements such as the ties of the palm and the pen, while they were calculated in the record, do not include the organization or the person who donated the gift.
The Inspector General of Chicago Diboras, Witsberg told Fox News Digital on Wednesday night that only some elements are visible in the 22 -second video, which provides “practical challenges”.
“There are some visible things in the video that may be recognized, but I do not know that anyone is in a position to look at this video and find a pair of Hugo Boss's links or a dedicated pen.”
“I don't know that it gives way to this. I'm not sure if it is intended.”
According to Witzburg, the video does not work as a substitute for public access, which citizens are entitled to obtain.
She added that she “is deeply anxious” about the fact that even the gifts she recorded in the last two days have no information about their sectors.
“This still is a really problem,” said Wittsburg. “It does not suggest that, at least in this regard, we have made a lot of progress … We talk a lot about the fact that the city of Chicago is working in this deficit of legitimacy, and for decades and generations, the city has not given any reason to bear the government to benefit from doubt. This is It is really concerned with such a situation. This video may show a room appropriate to everything in that list, but I am not sure that we have given people any reason to think. “
She explained that anxiety is that gifts may be presented or received with the intention of influencing the decisions or actions of the city government.
“We cannot get a mark” for sale “on the door to the city hall,” said Wittsburg.
“The city's ethics rules contain these requirements, and there are very clear rules on how to deal with accepted gifts on behalf of the city.”
