She is not worried

Dorothy Brown shrugs off federal probe in re-election bid

WRITTEN BY ANDY GRIMM POSTED: 01/29/2016, 05:44PM

Circuit Court Clerk Dorothy Brown and her rivals in the election - Jacob Meister and Ald. Michelle Harris (8th) - spoke to members of the Sun-Times Editorial Board on Friday | Rich Hein/Sun-Times

Dorothy Brown said being the target of a long-running federal investigation proves she runs her Circuit Court clerk’s office on the up-and-up. After all, she said, federal prosecutors have probed her office and business dealings for months — but have yet to charge her with any misconduct.

Brown and rivals Jacob Meister and Ald. Michelle Harris (8th) spoke Friday to the Chicago Sun-Times Editorial Board.

“If someone goes through every bank account you have and you can still be standing, it shows that you’ve been doing a lot of things right,” Brown said, though she noted later she was only assuming the feds have looked at her bank records. “I handle my business properly.”