An embattled Illinois Mayor billed the city $7,650 for her glam hair and makeup team over just two months, while listing it as an ‘assistant’ cost.
Tiffany Henyard, 40, who represents the Chicago
It comes after it was revealed that the $300K-salaried mayor has spent thousands more taxpayer dollars on lavish first class trips and a security detail.
She’s facing furious calls to resign after rejecting demands to open up the books while vetoing a bid by the town trustees to call the FBI.
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Wiedeman also produced records from a Freedom of Information Act request showing Henyard’s spending on her stylist, who was listed as ‘admin assistant’ in her receipts.
Henyard gets her hair and makeup done by Brandon K Momon, known as ‘Style Me Brandon’ on Instagram, according to his social media posts.
Momon regularly posts videos of Henyard smiling, waving, and blowing kisses at the camera in colorful looks he has styled for her.
Henyard brings home nearly $300K per year for her role as mayor along with serving as the county supervisor for Thornton Township.
This dwarfs the average salaries in Thornton Township and Dolton of around $50K and $24K respectively.
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She said this is typical of the mayor who makes decisions based on ‘personal vendettas’ rather than having the community interest at heart.
Speaking about the lavish spending on her personal stylist, Wiedeman told Fox: ‘I don’t know that anybody should be able to come in here and spend money the way this is happening…
‘[Her] personality is narcissistic,’ she said. ‘I’ve met people in my life that have characteristics of being a narcissist but… every single characteristic you need to qualify for she exhibited on a regular basis.’
‘She shattered everything – we had a well-oiled machine, the township services were self-running because the people there knew what they were doing,’ Wiedeman added.
‘But (Henyard) eliminated all of that, and the community is suffering because of it.’
Wiedeman has also filed a lawsuit against Henyard, claiming she was fired just a couple of weeks into her tenure because the mayor didn’t trust her to keep quiet.
‘She didn’t trust me. I wasn’t part of her team. Those were her words,’ Wiedeman said. ‘It wasn’t a surprise to me that I was let go.’
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‘She uses the police force to harass and torture residents,’ she told Fox. ‘I know this firsthand. I’ve been arrested by them. I get removed from meetings. If I wasn’t living it, I wouldn’t believe it was happening.’
The allegations are being investigated by the FBI.
FBI agents are also in the process of talking to dozens of people in Dolton about allegations of her leaving bills to suppliers unpaid.
Henyard has admitted a $2 million deficit, blaming the trustees for incompetence, but some fear the true figure could be as high as $5 million.
WGNTV reported that the town owes more than $427,000 to a company that repaved its streets, and another $400,000 to a tree-trimming company that worked for it last year.
‘You lied to us as residents. You do not, you do not stand for me. And I want you to step down as mayor today and save our village from this deficit you have caused,’ Dolton resident Vivian Allen told her on Monday.
‘The mayor can blame everybody for what’s going on, but she has to look at herself,’ added former trustee Edward Steave.
Henyard had her charity ‘Tiffany Henyard Cares’ shut down last month by the Illinois Attorney General amid claims it used taxpayer money and the services of public employees.
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Henyard has also been slammed for hiring her former campaign worker as the town’s code enforcement officer despite the fact he is a convicted child rapist.
Despite the furore, Henyard last month launched a YouTube channel where she plans on ‘spilling the tea,’.
Henyard said in the promotional video: ‘I got the tea. With the receipts. Matter of fact – if you want the tea, get it from me.’
Called ‘On The Move,’ Henyard has dubbed the series ‘the most entertaining political podcast ever.’
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