A former assistant to controversial Dolton, Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard says she is blowing the whistle on the embattled “supermayor” for her lavish spending on the taxpayer’s dime, accusing Henyard of “unethical and predatory behavior” in order to “increase her influence.”
Henyard, who also serves as Supervisor for the neighboring Thornton Township, has been dogged by scandal for months and has been accused of misdeeds, excessive spending, allegations of corruption and retaliating against co-workers.
Despite the controversies and calls for her resignation, she has remained resolute in her roles, but now Thornton Township trustee Carmen Carlisle has come forward to spill the beans on the bombastic mayor.
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Tiffany Henyard has been embroiled in numerous controversies and has faced calls for her resignation. (Fox32)
“Today, I am breaking my silence and speaking out against Thornton Township Supervisor and Mayor of Dolton Tiffany Henyard, who I believe has engaged in unethical and predatory behavior throughout her tenure,” Carlisle wrote in an emailed statement to WGN.
“For the past two years, Henyard has manipulated employees, vendors, and residents, using her position to increase her influence, all while projecting a false image of success, funded by the hardworking taxpayers of Thornton Township and the Village of Dolton.”
Carlisle, who was an assistant to Henyard before being appointed a trustee in May 2023, said at a recent special board meeting that she rarely raised questions about extravagant trips and other spending charged to township taxpayers because she “trusted the administration,” per the report.
Carlisle and other township trustees then voted to put new restrictions on spending on special events and access to credit cards.
“I am standing up, not just for myself, but for others who have been affected by what I see as Henyard’s abusive leadership,” Carlisle’s statement continued. “I believe there are many more victims who have been retaliated against, fired or lied to by Henyard, but have yet to speak out.”
Henyard responded to the apparent show of disloyalty by announcing a new nickname for Carlisle.
Tiffany Henyard outfits are professionally styled by a fashion expert. (stylemebrandon | Instagram/screenshot)
“I think I’m going to get you a new nickname: ‘Lyin’ Carlisle,’” Henyard said at the public meeting. “I’m tired of everyone in here. There always has to be a show.”
WGN reported in January that Henyard and her entourage racked up $67,000 in charges for trips to Portland, Austin, Atlanta and New York City in a five-month span. Carlisle was on at least one of the trips along with other trustees and township officials. In Atlanta, the group stayed at the Four Seasons and billed taxpayers more than $9,300.
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Carlisle said at the recent special meeting that the moment she didn’t trust the administration or the process, she began asking questions.
“I worked as your assistant. I saw a lot. I heard a lot. … The first time I ever really questioned supporting you is when you went on this national platform and you said you didn’t know anything about a foundation. But you forget that I was in certain rooms when certain things happened,” Carlisle said according to The Lansing Journal.
Henyard has been under scrutiny for her role with the Tiffany A. Henyard Cares Foundation.
In a September 2022 meeting, Henyard and the township board voted to give $10,000 to the foundation, which claims to help people with cancer. Records viewed by the Illinois Answers project show the foundation’s paperwork was filed with the state the same day that the township payment was approved.
An Illinois Answers Project and FOX 32 investigation found that thousands of taxpayer dollars were spent on a group bicycle ride to Springfield in support of a breast cancer bill, but the bill was never formally filed, and state lawmakers weren’t in session.
“You were not honest about that foundation,” Carlisle said at the meeting. “You came to my house after that, unannounced, and tried to get me to say somebody else started that foundation that didn’t.”
Tiffany Henyard is facing accusations of corruption
Meanwhile, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has been hired as a “special investigator” by the Village of Dolton to look into Henyard’s alleged misdeeds.
Lightfoot stated in a preliminary report earlier this month that in April 2022, Dolton’s general fund balance was $5.61 million, but by May 2024, the balance had dropped to a deficit of $3.65 million.
Lightfoot also disclosed that Henyard used the village credit card to make purchases at Amazon, Target, Walgreens, Wayfair and other retailers.
One jaw-dropping statement revealed that the embattled mayor had dropped $33,000 on Jan. 5, 2023 on Amazon.
The accusations of financial misdeeds have prompted an ongoing FBI investigation.
Henyard, who typically speaks into a golden microphone at meetings, has also come under fire for an alleged sexual assault by one of her allies during a Las Vegas trip, where the alleged victim claims to have been fired after speaking out.
Furthermore, Lewis A. Lacey, the former deputy chief of police of Dolton and an ally of Henyard, was indicted earlier this month by a federal grand jury on bankruptcy fraud charges and is accused of concealing assets and income to avoid paying creditors and settling a lawsuit.
In February, it was reported that the FBI was investigating Henyard after six people had reportedly spoken to the agency about her alleged misconduct, including “business owners, a former village employee and one or more public officials.”
In April, the FBI served two federal subpoenas as part of an investigation. Henyard was not served.
Embattled Mayor Tiffany Henyard posted a video from when she met President Biden at the White House. (Instagram)
The first one was for employment records, personnel files and disciplinary reports for 25 Dolton employees, including three police officers and Keith Freeman, who is the village administrator and Henyard’s top aide. Freeman was charged with bankruptcy fraud.
The second subpoena was served specifically on Freeman, asking for records of all companies associated with him and possible ties to the village.
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.
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DETROIT – The sound and speed of the Detroit Grand Prix return to city streets in three weeks.
“Racing is in our blood. It’s in our DNA,” event chairman Bud Denker said.
Entering its fourth year downtown, the race hosts the NTT IndyCar Series and IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship from May 29 through May 31.
“We’re not here once every 15 or 20 years like the Super Bowl or the Draft or Final Four,” Denker continued. “This event happens in our city every single year. You can plan on it.”
Racing up Franklin Street and down Jefferson Avenue, drivers can always count on a challenge from the nine-turn, 1.7-mile circuit.
“One little error and you’re going to hit a wall and end your day,” five-time Belle Isle winner and Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing sports car driver Jordan Taylor said. “It takes a lot of risk. It takes a lot of commitment. The car has to be fast. This is one of those events where you need everything to go right.”
The Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear took the green flag for the first time in 1982 as a Formula One event, transitioning to IndyCar/CART in 1989.
Through layout and location changes, the event continues to reflect the city’s culture.
“Energy, warmth, and sense of togetherness make the Detroit Grand Prix special,” Reden Le said. A student at the College for Creative Studies, Le designed the poster for this year’s race. “Working on this poster made me actually see how the community in Detroit is so diverse and so fun.”
The fun includes concerts, festivities, and promotions adjacent to the track throughout race week, along with documented economic and charitable impacts.
“We love racing for all those reasons,” General Motors Vice President of Performance and Motorsports Jim Campbell said. “Certainly, to have a race in our hometown means a lot, and it’s also a great way to give back.”
Approximately 1,350 volunteers sign up with the Detroit Grand Prix Association each year, but community assistance goes both ways.
“We put thousands of people to work,” Denker added. “We bring 100 million dollars to the city every year, and we show off these kids.”
Members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Detroit created seven murals adorning the wall to the right side of the pit lane exit.
Serving as a clear reminder of the community that makes this race what it is, they’re also tough for drivers to see at speeds in excess of 180 miles per hour.
“We’re one of only 20 cities in the world that have a downtown street course event,” Denker said. “We should never take that for granted.”
The track build has already begun, with most construction occurring at night to avoid disrupting traffic.
Friday, May 29, is Fifth Third Free Prix Day, welcoming fans to grandstands one and nine with no ticket required.
Reserved seats for all three days are on sale now.
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Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam talks greater involvement, Giannis future
Bucks co-owner Jimmy Haslam says that he will have a greater involvement with the team and that includes the decision on if to re-sign Giannis Antetokounmpo.
In his first press conference to discuss on-court basketball matters with the Milwaukee Bucks, one in which the organization introduced Taylor Jenkins as its new head coach on May 6, co-owner Jimmy Haslam didn’t waste any time in providing a bit of clarity with the direction of the franchise the Haslam Sports Group bought into in 2023.
Haslam, who said he anticipates being around the Bucks more often going forward, flatly stated the team will decide either trade superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo or continue to build the team around him by the NBA draft, which will be held June 23-24.
It was a stark departure from the last calendar year, when the organization and locker room navigated through a consistent barrage of trade speculation about the two-time Most Valuable Player.
“I just think before the draft is a natural time, right, because if Giannis does play somewhere else we ought to get a lot of assets,” Haslam said. “And that’s [general manager] Jon [Horst’s] job to do. And if he’s here, you build the team differently.”
Haslam then took a beat to add, without a prompt, “I just want to stress though, that our relationship with him – despite what is reported by certain ESPN writers – is very positive.”
Questions about Antetokounmpo’s future with the organization didn’t entirely dominate Jenkins’ reintroduction to Milwaukee, as the former Bucks assistant and Memphis Grizzlies head coach was able to lay out some aspects of his vision for the team, his partnership with Horst and how he seeks to re-establish a winning culture.
But Jenkins did acknowledge the looming decision on which direction the team is going to take with – or without – Antetokounmpo was a key point in the hours long discussions he had with co-owners Haslam and Wes Edens, as well as Horst.
“It’s a big one,” Haslam said of the decision over the future of its franchise cornerstone. “It’s a big one. And you gotta get it right. And Jon knows it and Wes knows it. And we didn’t hold back with Taylor. We just said, listen, he may or may not be with us, so don’t come because of that because you want to be straight up with people.”
Horst added that Antetokounmpo did not meet with Jenkins in the interview process, but the head coach and the star have spoken.
And, Antetokounmpo gave an endorsement on the hire to the Journal Sentinel.
“I think he’s an incredible person,” Antetokounmpo said. “Obviously, he’s an incredible coach. I was able to be with him in 2019 and we made the Eastern Conference finals.
“After that he left, he was one of the first coaches that left the coaching staff and went to Memphis and he had an incredible six years in Memphis. He made them contenders in the West. He had incredible culture in Memphis.
“I had the conversation. I don’t think Milwaukee is just getting just a good coach, I think they’re getting a good person. And that’s where it starts with. Having a good person around that’s gonna be able to set the tone, that set the culture and what Milwaukee Bucks basketball is all about. He’s a really good coach.”
As for the prospect of being coached by Jenkins, Antetokounmpo said, “We’ll see.”
And clearly that is the approach the organization is taking as well.
“Giannis has brought Milwaukee its second championship and the first in 50 years,” Haslam said. “He’s a phenomenal player. He’s a phenomenal person. He’s arguably one of the best basketball players in the world and we will do what’s best for Giannis and what’s best for the organization.
“We don’t know whether Giannis will stay with us or not, but we’ll work through that with Giannis in the coming weeks.”
For his part, Antetokounmpo addressed how he was going to approach his immediate future with the team on April 12.
“Nothing – phone on do not disturb,” he said after the Bucks’ season finale in Philadelphia. “Working hard every single day to improve my game, be in the best physical shape that I can be and just stay away from it – all of it.
“I feel like this season, not just because of the way it went, it was draining for me for sure and how everybody approached my situation and the Bucks situation. But again, if it was draining for me, it was definitely draining for the team and for the organization, but I feel like sometimes people just don’t listen.
“They listen to the sources, and the main source is me. It is what it is. So again, do not disturb phone, go about my day, improve and come back better.”
Core42, the cloud subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s G42 Group, has leased 20 megawatts in a converted office building in downtown Minneapolis. The company building the Stargate UAE campus is now filling American offices-turned-data-centres, part of a broader pattern in which the same AI systems emptying offices are generating the demand to fill them with servers.
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The building at 1001 Third Avenue South in downtown Minneapolis used to be an office. Now it is a data centre, and its anchor tenant is not a Silicon Valley hyperscaler but Core42, the cloud and AI infrastructure subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s G42 Group. The lease, reported by Bloomberg on Wednesday, covers 20 megawatts of capacity in a facility converted from commercial office space by Legacy Investing, a Virginia-based developer that has spent more than 70 million dollars transforming the property. The deal is a small piece of a much larger pattern: the UAE’s most ambitious AI company is building a network of American data centres while simultaneously constructing the largest AI compute facility outside the United States, and the buildings it is filling were, until recently, home to the kind of white-collar workers whose jobs AI is designed to replace.
G42, led by CEO Peng Xiao and backed by Abu Dhabi’s national security adviser Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has become the UAE’s principal vehicle for AI infrastructure investment. The company is building the Stargate UAE campus, the international flagship of the 500 billion dollar Stargate joint venture between OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and Abu Dhabi sovereign investment vehicle MGX, across approximately 19 square kilometres of desert south of Abu Dhabi. The first phase, a 200 megawatt compute cluster powered by Nvidia Grace Blackwell GB300 systems, is scheduled to come online by the end of 2026, with full build-out designed to reach one gigawatt of capacity at a projected cost exceeding 30 billion dollars. The project has already attracted geopolitical threats, with Iran warning of retaliatory strikes against Gulf infrastructure including commercial data centres.
Core42’s US expansion extends well beyond Minneapolis. The company signed a ten-year lease with TeraWulf for more than 70 megawatts of data centre infrastructure at the Lake Mariner facility in upstate New York, with an option for an additional 135 megawatts. G42 has also announced a one billion dollar data centre investment in Vietnam and established Core42’s European headquarters in Dublin. The Minneapolis lease adds a relatively modest 20 megawatts to a portfolio that is scaling globally, but its significance lies less in the capacity than in the location: a converted office building in the centre of an American city whose downtown vacancy rate, like those of most mid-sized US cities, has climbed steadily since the pandemic.
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Legacy Investing acquired 1001 Third Avenue South in 2019 and has since invested heavily in converting the six-storey property from office to data centre use. The company spent more than 70 million dollars on improvements in 2025 alone, expanding the building’s capacity from approximately two megawatts to 21 megawatts. In January 2026, Cloud Capital and Bahrain-based asset manager Arcapita acquired the property for 235 million dollars through a joint venture, reflecting the premium that data centre conversions now command over traditional office valuations.
The economics of office-to-data-centre conversion have become compelling enough to reshape urban real estate markets. US utilities plan to spend 1.4 trillion dollars by 2030 to power the AI boom, and the demand for data centre capacity has outstripped the supply of purpose-built facilities. Converting existing office buildings offers developers a faster path to market than ground-up construction, provided the building’s structural load capacity, power infrastructure, and cooling systems can be upgraded to support the density of modern compute hardware. Not every office qualifies. The buildings that do, typically those with reinforced concrete construction, proximity to fibre networks, and access to sufficient electrical capacity, have become some of the most sought-after properties in commercial real estate.
G42’s American data centre strategy reflects a broader shift in how sovereign AI ambitions are materialising in the United States. The company is not simply building compute capacity abroad. It is establishing a physical presence inside the American power grid, the American fibre network, and American commercial real estate markets. The Minneapolis lease, the TeraWulf deal in New York, and facilities in California and Texas create a distributed infrastructure footprint that positions Core42 as a provider of what the company calls sovereign cloud and AI infrastructure: compute capacity that can serve both G42’s own AI workloads and those of its customers, including the US-based companies that require data residency within American borders.
The race to secure data centre capacity has drawn startups, sovereign wealth funds, and hyperscalers into direct competition for the same constrained resources: power, land, cooling, and fibre connectivity. In Minneapolis, Legacy Investing’s conversion of an office building into a 21 megawatt facility illustrates how developers are working around those constraints by repurposing existing urban infrastructure rather than competing for greenfield sites in the exurban corridors where most large-scale data centres are built. The approach has limits. Twenty megawatts is a fraction of the capacity that a purpose-built hyperscale facility delivers, and the structural constraints of an existing building make future expansion difficult. But for a tenant like Core42, which needs distributed US presence rather than concentrated scale, the urban conversion model offers something that a greenfield campus in rural Virginia does not: proximity to enterprise customers and the network interconnection density of a major metropolitan area.
The geopolitics of UAE-linked AI infrastructure in the United States remain sensitive. G42 severed its ties with Chinese technology companies in 2024 under pressure from the US government, a prerequisite for receiving access to advanced American AI chips. Microsoft invested 1.5 billion dollars in G42 as part of that realignment, and the company has since positioned itself as a bridge between American AI technology and Gulf capital. OpenAI’s decision to pause its Stargate UK project over energy costs and regulatory concerns has made the UAE’s willingness to build at scale and speed more strategically valuable, and G42’s ability to secure chip imports for the Stargate UAE campus has been treated by the US government as a test case for whether AI infrastructure can be deployed in allied nations without compromising national security.
The financial dynamics of AI infrastructure investment have produced valuations and capital commitments that would have been inconceivable five years ago. Oracle’s stock fell 50 per cent despite a Wall Street buy consensus as concentration risk from its OpenAI dependency spooked investors. Alphabet raised its full-year 2026 capex estimate to between 180 and 190 billion dollars. The International Energy Agency predicts that energy use from data centres will double by the end of 2026. Into this environment, a 20 megawatt lease in a converted Minneapolis office building registers as a footnote. But the tenant signing the lease is the company building the largest AI compute facility outside the United States, and the building it is moving into is one of hundreds of American offices being repurposed to house the infrastructure that is making the offices themselves obsolete. The conversion is not just architectural. It is economic. The same AI systems that emptied the office are now filling it with servers.
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