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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Frank Main

Cook County’s chief judge investigating court employees who got COVID-19 relief loans

Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans is looking into whether any employees of his office fraudulently obtained federal Paycheck Protection Program loans. (Sun-Times file)

Chief Cook County Judge Timothy Evans has hired a law firm to interview his employees in an investigation of possible fraud regarding government coronavirus relief loans they got under a program to help businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Evans told the county judiciary’s more than 2,700 employees in a Nov. 30 letter obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times that he has retained the Zuber Lawler law firm to speak with those who got the loans under the federal Paycheck Protection Program, an investigation he said should take about two months.

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