the upheavel at county board centered around charges of no bid contracts that may have been within the letter of the law. but which may have pushed the edgeses of illegality so colonially -- edges of illegality so closely that taken as a hole to show that the intent was to circumhaven't the law. at the center of the investigation was carla oglesby. former chief of staff for cook county board president todd stroger oglesby pushed through those so-called 24-9 contracts which as you said fell just under $25,000 which is the threshold for not requiring full board approval. she is charged with steering hundreds of thousands of dollars to her own public relations firm and to associates who may not have done any work for that pay. she has also been charged with theft of government services, money laundering and official misconduct and cook county commissioner tony peraica says more than just oglesby may have been involved. >> involved at least half a dozen individuals perhaps more who have used this process of awarding tax just under $25,000 to reward campaign vendors because they were unable