As of Friday evening, the Office of Budget & Management at City Hall confirmed he's paid off all of his debts to the City of Chicago.
But CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov learned those weren't Johnson's only past debts and talked to him about it on Friday.
It was all in black and white from the city – documentation showing Johnson owed $3,357.04 in unpaid water and sewer bills. That is in addition to the more than $400 his family owed for unpaid parking tickets. This comes one day after Johnson was first asked about it."It's paid off," Johnson said."We took care of that. We didn't want anyone else to be distracted by a water bill.
But CBS 2 has learned that in 2016, Johnson ran into some other financial trouble. He defaulted on a Capital One credit card to the sum of more than $3,600. It ended up in court, but was resolved in 2017.:"If you've had past fiscal issues, how can you manage a massive city budget? Should voters be concerned?"But he's a Chicagoan who wants to oversee and implement a city budget of more than $16 billion.:"I've been elected twice.
Johnson said he's managed multi-billion dollar budgets before as a Cook County commissioner, but commissioners actually approve a budget handed down to them from the county board president and budget director. Johnson also said with school loans and mortgages, it's not uncommon for families like his to run into financial issues.
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