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accepted many valuable gifts “on behalf of the city” but failed to report them, according to a new report from the city’s inspector general.
Lightfoot also received gifts that were not properly reported, including a bottle of Uncle Nearest 1856 premium-aged whiskey and a gift listed on the spreadsheet as “Always 24k Idols Pearl and Gold Elephant.” The inspector general still has yet to gain access to the mayor’s “gift room” at City Hall in order to “inspect the manner in which gifts are stored, audit the presence of gifts that were purportedly stored in the gift room as stated in the gift log, or to review controls around access to the gift room,” according to the report.
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