A federal grand jury has indicted Quinshaunta R. Golden — a onetime top government aide to Eric E. Whitaker, one of President Obama’s closest friends — on bribery, theft and fraud charges related in part to when Golden was Whitaker’s chief of staff at the Illinois Department of Public Health.
Whitaker is not accused of wrongdoing in the indictment, though the scheme that Golden is accused of involves state grants that were awarded under Whitaker’s watch when he headed the state health department — a job Obama recommended him for in 2003. Both Whitaker and Golden left state government to work for the University of Chicago but have since left the school’s medical system.
Golden allegedly “participated in a scheme to corruptly solicit and demand money for the benefit of herself and others, intending to be influenced and rewarded in connection with the business of transactions of” the health department, according to the indictment. A phone call to Golden was not immediately returned. A spokeswoman for Whitaker had not seen the indictment and had no immediate comment.
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