Cook County’s chief judge announced more than a year ago that he’d hired a Los Angeles law firm to investigate staffers who’d gotten federal Paycheck Protection Program COVID-19 relief loans to make sure they were legitimate.
Chief Judge Timothy Evans sent a letter to Cook County’s 2,700 court support employees, saying the investigation would take about two months. That was in late 2022. A spokeswoman for Evans says the investigation remains “ongoing” and won’t discuss what the firm has found or the cost of the effort.
