Cook County official sued by ethics board for ‘flagrantly’ defying nepotism ban fires her cousin as chief of staff, he says

Board of Review Commissioner Tammy Wendt had refused to fire her cousin even after the ethics board fined her.

Tammy Wendt has fired her cousin after she was fined and sued for nepotism. She's shown here in 2018 during the murder trial for former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke, whom she represented as a defense attorney.

Wendt, a Democrat from Palos Heights who ousted a Republican incumbent in 2020, is running for reelection to the property tax appeals board and faces Chicago 12th Ward Ald. George Cardenas in the June 28 Democratic primary. She was also one of the defense attorneys for Jason Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer convicted of murder in the shooting of Laquan McDonald.

Then in March, the county’s ethics board ruled Wendt both violated a county ban on hiring relatives and failed to uphold her “fiduciary duty” to the county because she was still employing her cousin despite being given several notices about the nepotism ban.

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