DOLTON, Ill. – Dolton residents packed into a room at the Dolton Park District Field House on Monday to listen to the final report from Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, detailing the findings of her investigation into the Village of Dolton and Mayor Tiffany Henyard.

“The residents of Dolton have suffered needlessly because of the financial mismanagement of this current mayor,” Lightfoot said.

The Dolton Village Board of Trustees hired Lightfoot last spring after a series of WGN Investigates reports detailing Henyard’s first class travel, questionable charity and self-promotion.

On Monday, Lightfoot laid out a pattern of unchecked spending.

“There’s not a system for ensuring there are receipts for various CC purchases. What this means, unfortunately, is the board of trustees was not able to track or see CC purchases being done over the last few years,” Lightfoot said.

For example, $48,000 was spent on building an ice rink, charged to village credit cards with no board approval and no competitive bidding process.

Spending peaked in 2023 when over $775,000 was spent on credit cards, more than $200,000 of that on Amazon and more than $117,000 on travel, including those two so called “business trips” to Las Vegas.

Lightfoot also highlighted a broken FOIA system with no one on staff to properly manage public information requests and no staff accountant in the village to oversee spending.

“It’s just the spending of the money and how it was spent and did it so much undercover. Nobody really got a chance to see what was going on,” Dolton resident Flo Hampton said.

This all comes after last week when Henyard was found in contempt of court after failing to sign liquor licenses for businesses in Dolton that the board had previously approved and a looming federal investigation into the mayor.

“The FBI is also in contact with various people who have information about the allegations here. What they intend to do and timing of that, no one knows but for them,” Lightfoot said.

WGN News reached out to Henyard through her attorney for comment on Lightfoot’s report, but has not yet heard back.

Lightfoot also gave recommendations to the village board, such as making monthly financial reports public and adopting a credit card spending policy.