SPRINGFIELD — State Sen. Donne Trotter, the 2nd Congressional District candidate facing a felony gun charge, tried to thwart state efforts in 2010 to recoup a $1.25 million state grant after a now-indicted ex-south suburban police chief allegedly was caught skimming the public funds to pay herself rent and to hire her brother.
The case in question surrounds job-training money Trotter helped arrange as a top Senate budget negotiator to We Are Our Brother’s Keeper, a nonprofit organization once run by former Country Club Hills Police Chief Regina Evans. She sought state help to fix up the historic New Regal Theater on the South Side, which had fallen into disrepair.
“I do hope you will assist Ms. Evans,” Trotter wrote in a March 2010 letter to the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, urging the state not to follow through on a threat to yank grant funding from her because of questionable spending. “I do believe that We Are Our Brother’s Keepers is a community necessity.”
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