Mayor Brandon Johnson made a show of videotaping the City Hall gift room after being accused of accepting valuable gifts, failing to report them and denying the city’s inspector general access to the room where those items were stored.

But there was a problem.

The gift room showcased in the mayor’s 21-second video was not constructed until February, the month after Inspector General Deborah Witzburg tried to conduct an unannounced inspection — only to be turned away by the mayor’s office.

In an advisory released Tuesday, Witzburg accused Johnson of failing to live up to his commitment to transparency.

“My fear is that, what we are seeing here is less about the cufflinks and the size 14 men’s shoes and it’s more about hostility to oversight. There is a reflexive hostility to oversight,”

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