No. 015 · · Money, Personnel
$8 million in new fee-account spending includes $606,540 to the former campaign manager’s firm
The sheriff’s office made nearly $8 million in purchases from the “Operation Cost Payable” fee account between March 2024 and October 2025, according to an Inquirer analysis of bank records — a separate, later period than the roughly $2 million the paper had tracked from the same account for October 2022 through February 2024.
Among the largest checks: $250,000 in October 2025, $255,569 in April 2025, and $100,971 in July 2024, totaling $606,540, to TML Communications, a firm run by Teresa Lundy, Bilal’s former campaign manager, for a “deputy hiring campaign.” Bilal and Lundy would not comment on the new expenditures.
$8,000,000 — New spending from the sheriff-controlled “Operation Cost Payable” account tracked by the Inquirer, March 2024-October 2025 (includes the $606,540 recruitment-ad contract; a separate, non-overlapping $2 million was tracked from the same account for October 2022-February 2024)