(The Center Square) – The former Pritzker administration official who spearheaded the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has agreed to pay $150,000 to the state after an ethics complaint investigation.

Dr. Ngozi Ezike, the former director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, agreed to “a violation of the Ethics Act and the facts comprising the violation, in that she accepted employment and compensation from an entity which had contracts involving IDPH with a cumulative value of $4.2 million and over which she had exercised regulatory and licensing authority in the year before her departure from State employment,” a filing from the Executive Ethics Commission said.