Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul declined to bring charges against Hulme and Dorman. EDWARDSVILLE – Former Madison County officials Doug Hulme and Rob Dorman say they continue gathering evidence that proves a two-year-long criminal investigation of them was started because they tried to stop Democratic Party political activity on county time. Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who investigated Hulme and Dorman for allegedly spying on internal emails of county officials and employees, ended the case in late 2019 after finding no basis for bringing charges. Since then, through multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Raoul’s office has released to Hulme and Dorman more than 2,000 pages of documents related to the investigation initiated by former state’s attorney Tom Gibbons, a Democrat. Gibbons assembled a task force of 33 city, county and state law enforcement officers in December 2017, which then carried out a mid-day raid on offices in the county administration building on Jan. 10, 2018.