CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois officials are investigating a longtime state investigator whose personal email has been the source of racist, sexist and anti-gay emails.
The state began reviewing 62-year-old Frank Capuzi with the Workers’ Compensation Commission after the newspaper’s probe of offensive emails that were forwarded from his address to a water department boss and others.
A July 2013 email obtained by the newspaper with the subject line “Chicago Safari Tickets” makes light of the shootings of children in black and Hispanic neighborhoods. It also includes an image of four white people in safari attire taking pictures of several black people trying to break into a car.
The messages came to light in the ongoing investigation of Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s emails.
The newspaper says Capuzi hung up when called and didn’t respond to follow up emails.
