The FBI examination of the former Chandler City Councilor without measures

For more than a year, Chandler Council member Jane Poston claimed that the best city officials had subjected a story about the FBI to investigate their external company to the local police union.

Poston even submitted a lawsuit against the city in which she slandered.

However, the FBI has now confirmed that the agents had examined after a letter after a letter after the deficit after a letter after 2023.

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In the letter of February 12, the responsible FBI Special agent Jose Perez wrote to the police chief of Chandler, Bryan Chapman, and informed him that the matter was closed.

The letter did not state why the examination was discontinued.

In an e -mail declaration, Poston said that she never knew an investigation and never contacted the FBI.

“It is unclear whether this was a real” examination “or politically motivated,” she said.

The confirmation of the investigation undermines Poston's claims in their complaint against city officials.

In a court registration in January 2025, their lawyers stated that the city officials had lied to the existence of an FBI examination for damage to Poston.

“Out of mere hostility to the plaintiffs Jane Poston and J2 Media LLC ('J2'), the defendants put together a story that Poston was under” FBI Investigation “and the Chandler Law Enforcement Association ('Clea') tried to bribe Poston by considering the marketing services.” Invention of these falsehoods, the accused have strategically entered them in the media over a period of several months in order to increase the stress, fear and other damage that poston experienced in connection with their latest breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy. “

A judge has not yet decided whether Poston's lawsuit should be rejected.

ABC15 broke out the story about a possible FBI examination to Poston in February 2024.

The station received an email chat in November 2023 from Sean Duggan, head of the then police to the city administrator Joshua Wright. Duggan wrote that he examined information about the FBI, the Poston and the former president of the Chandler Law Enforcement Association, Michael Collins.

Duggan did not write in the e -mail, which the FBI specially examined.

But Sources announced ABC15 that the claim after the work of Poston media company surrounds the police union.

A few weeks after the report from ABC15, Poston was relentless during an interview that there was no investigation.

“I don't think there is an investigation,” she said. “There is absolutely no reason to assume that this is done.”

Poston and her husband Jason have a company called J2 Media and confirmed that they carried out video, website and public work work for the Chandler Law Enforcement Association.

During the interview, she refused to tell ABC15 how much money J2 media has received from the union in recent years.

“No. It is not a suitable conversation for me to talk about the money that a company wants to spend with my company, an appropriate conversation for every company,” she said.

Poston said that her paid work ended in December 2022, which was the month before taking office.

The Chandler Law Enforcement Association has spent more than $ 150,000 in recent years in recent years for advertising and advertising costs, as can be seen from publicly submitted tax forms in 2021 and 2022.

Before 2021, the union spent little or no money for advertising and advertising, as provided by tax documents.

In an earlier report, ABC15 has proven that J2 Media provided video services and studio room for the union after poston and studio. Poston confirmed that this was true, but claimed that this was done free of charge and denied that one of the work of her company caused a conflict of interest.

Full statement by Jane Poston

“I was never aware of an investigation and was not contacted by anyone at the FBI or a law enforcement organization. It is unclear whether this was a real “examination” or politically motivated. I lifted my business relationship with CLEA with the city administration before I took office and publicly at a city council meeting. In both cases, the city administration gave that there is no conflict of interest. I don't understand why the city was waiting for so long that there was an examination. We still evaluate our options with our lawyers at Snell & Wilmer. “

Contact the ABC15 boss Dave Biscobing at Dave@abc15.com.