The Chicago Board of Ethics is expected to address allegations that city Treasurer Melissa Conyears-Ervin abused her office and violated the state’s whistleblower act following the recent release of a 2020 letter that laid out a series of accusations from two former top aides Conyears-Ervin fired.

       The Chicago Tribune first reported earlier this week the details of the letter, written by the women’s attorney, that alleged Conyears-Ervin abused her power and misused taxpayer resources by using government workers to run errands for her, hiring a former police officer to be her personal bodyguard and pressuring public employees to hold events benefiting political allies, among other accusations.

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