#2,631 - Fireworks at public meeting in Sauk Village, Illinois over missing funds, plans for audit

Angry outbursts erupted at a public meeting in south suburban Sauk Village Tuesday night, with tensions running high as trustees discuss nearly $100,000 in missing funds. Some trustees are pushing to get an internal audit to get to the bottom of where the taxpayer dollars are today. But some residents do not approve of the auditor some village trustees have in mind—saying his history with the village amounts to a conflict of interest. Anthony Finch has filed suit against the village and Mayor Derrick Burgess for wrongful termination. Now, four trustees want to bring Finch back to the village—but this time working as an auditor. "Why are we just now getting it when we've been behind in our audits three years, four years?" a woman said. "Why are we just now getting it?"