New details emerge in probe of alleged job-buying in Dorothy Brown's office

Current and former employees outlined more details of a wide-ranging job - and promotion - selling scheme in Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown's office, according to recent filings in a federal criminal case against one of Brown's deputies.

Brown "personally hired" each of the 2,300 employees under her command, and collected payments of $10,000 per job through campaign contributions, business loans and even a free trip to India, according to affidavits in an investigation of former Brown deputy Beena Patel.

Brown has not been charged with any crime.

Patel, last year, was indicted on charges she lied to a federal grand jury in a yearslong FBI probe of Brown's office.

The new details of the allegations of job-buying under Brown surfaced in a court order from U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who repeatedly referenced evidence cited by FBI agents in a 38-page affidavit used to get a search warrant to access Patel's cellphone.

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