Former mayoral candidate Paul Vallas filed a lawsuit Thursday accusing a consultant of defrauding his campaign out of hundreds of thousands of dollars that he allegedly falsely claimed was spent on get-out-the-vote efforts in Black communities which the former public schools chief ultimately lost.
The suit, filed in Cook County Circuit Court, alleges that Chimaobi Enyia told the campaign that he had effectively been given a “blank check” for $700,000 to do campaign work in those communities ahead of the mayoral runoff on April. Enyia was allegedly unable to account for $680,000 he received over a series of payments, and the Vallas campaign is now pushing to recoup all the money Enyia was paid.
