Cook County Board of Review Comm. Tammy Wendt (D-1) has violated county ethics rules by hiring her first cousin Todd Thielmann as her chief of staff, the Cook County Board of Ethics ruled. [Facebook/LinkedIn]

A week after Cook County Board of Review Comm. Tammy Wendt (D-1) was ordered by an ethics panel to fire her first cousin, whose employment as her chief of staff violates county anti-nepotism rules, the man remained on her payroll as of late Thursday.