Illinois House Speaker Chris Welch oversaw a two-person
Illinois Speaker Welch's Sham Probe Protected Harasser, Now Self-Polices
Welch ran a two-person 'investigation,' funneled $1.4M to a harasser, and launched a Democrat-only reform group that's already collapsing.

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