I'm starting to get excited. Also hoping for a boat load of indictments to be unsealed.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE: Appears Burke was charged with attempted extortion "for allegedly trying to use his powerful position on the City Council to solicit business for his private law firm."
Maybe investigators found some documents that can be used in a lawsuit against the corrupt Trump Organization, although I don't know if that would be legally permissible. Anonymous leaks?At one point, when the fast-food company officials had not yet hired Burke’s firm to do property tax appeal work, the firm’s specialty, Burke and one of his ward employees agree to turn the screws on them regarding permits they need. “All right, I’ll play as hard ball as I can,” the unidentified ward employee says, according to the complaint.
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Burke is also accused of pressuring the company to make a donation to the campaign of an unnamed politician. One company official gave $10,000 to the politician but that was eventually reduced to the legal limit of $5,600, according to the complaint.
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Burke has faced scrutiny over the years for a variety of reasons, including the $100 million city workers’ compensation fund operated by the Finance Committee he heads. His law firm represents clients who do business with the city, forcing him to abstain from many votes.
He has survived federal investigations that threatened to undercut his power base, once even by blaming a dead man for ghost-payrolling irregularities on his committee payroll.
Burke’s law firm, Klafter & Burke, repeatedly has sought to reduce the property taxes that Trump Tower and other commercial properties have to pay.
He’s even been in the public spotlight for having taxpayer-funded bodyguards drive him to and from City Hall — and for how quickly city snowplows clear the pavement on his Southwest Side block.
Chicago Suntimes
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