Quote:Federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning.
The nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics.
About 15 agents had arrived at City Hall about 7:30 a.m., bringing their own boxes. Some then went across the street to the underground parking garage at the Daley Center to find Burke’s car, but it wasn’t there.
Federal agents also showed up to Burke’s ward office and papered over the windows there. A group of them left about 1:10 p.m., nothing in hand, but others remained inside. By 1:30 p.m., they appeared to be wrapping up, and the brown paper had been removed.
About 1:40 p.m., the remaining agents left out the back door, with one cardboard file box, a computer and two computer monitors. Another carried up a giant wad of the brown paper that had covered the windows.
I doubt anyone other than the investigators have clue 1 as to what this is about. Ald. Burke has had multiple run ins with investigations before. He's Donald Trump's lawyer too.
Quote:Federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning.
The nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics.
About 15 agents had arrived at City Hall about 7:30 a.m., bringing their own boxes. Some then went across the street to the underground parking garage at the Daley Center to find Burke’s car, but it wasn’t there.
Federal agents also showed up to Burke’s ward office and papered over the windows there. A group of them left about 1:10 p.m., nothing in hand, but others remained inside. By 1:30 p.m., they appeared to be wrapping up, and the brown paper had been removed.
About 1:40 p.m., the remaining agents left out the back door, with one cardboard file box, a computer and two computer monitors. Another carried up a giant wad of the brown paper that had covered the windows.
Quote:Burke’s firm, Klafter & Burke, repeatedly has sought to reduce the property taxes that Trump Tower and other commercial properties have to pay — a lucrative business that’s also enriched Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, D-Chicago.
Burke’s law office was locked this morning. A woman who identified herself as a paralegal for the firm said the staff was in a meeting, and the office would remain locked.
The feds didn’t raid the law offices, the Sun-Times has been told.
So you leftists got you hopes up only to get them crushed by it just being yet another case of a leftist politician getting his due. LOL
(11-29-2018 04:11 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: I doubt anyone other than the investigators have clue 1 as to what this is about. Ald. Burke has had multiple run ins with investigations before. He's Donald Trump's lawyer too.
He's not exactly Trump's "lawyer."
He's simply a property tax consultant as far as President Trump is concerned. He's a lawyer who represented him in appealing property taxes on one property.
(11-29-2018 04:17 PM)Kaplony Wrote: Strange that they only raided the offices connected with this dim's job as Alderman rather than the law offices that dealt with Trump.
Quote:Federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning.
The nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics.
About 15 agents had arrived at City Hall about 7:30 a.m., bringing their own boxes. Some then went across the street to the underground parking garage at the Daley Center to find Burke’s car, but it wasn’t there.
Federal agents also showed up to Burke’s ward office and papered over the windows there. A group of them left about 1:10 p.m., nothing in hand, but others remained inside. By 1:30 p.m., they appeared to be wrapping up, and the brown paper had been removed.
About 1:40 p.m., the remaining agents left out the back door, with one cardboard file box, a computer and two computer monitors. Another carried up a giant wad of the brown paper that had covered the windows.
Quote:Burke’s firm, Klafter & Burke, repeatedly has sought to reduce the property taxes that Trump Tower and other commercial properties have to pay — a lucrative business that’s also enriched Illinois House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, D-Chicago.
Burke’s law office was locked this morning. A woman who identified herself as a paralegal for the firm said the staff was in a meeting, and the office would remain locked.
The feds didn’t raid the law offices, the Sun-Times has been told.
So you leftists got you hopes up only to get them crushed by it just being yet another case of a leftist politician getting his due. LOL
I have done a few of those and was successful every time. You would be surprised how much horse trading goes on. At these meetings/hearings there almost always someone from the local school district.
(11-29-2018 04:11 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: I doubt anyone other than the investigators have clue 1 as to what this is about. Ald. Burke has had multiple run ins with investigations before. He's Donald Trump's lawyer too.
Burke is a PROPERTY TAX lawyer. His firm does lots of business for many connected people.
(11-29-2018 04:11 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: I doubt anyone other than the investigators have clue 1 as to what this is about. Ald. Burke has had multiple run ins with investigations before. He's Donald Trump's lawyer too.
Burke is a PROPERTY TAX lawyer. His firm does lots of business for many connected people.
I bet a lot of those connected people are RUSSIANS!
(11-29-2018 04:11 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote: I doubt anyone other than the investigators have clue 1 as to what this is about. Ald. Burke has had multiple run ins with investigations before. He's Donald Trump's lawyer too.
According to the article, he's been dodging DOZENS of investigations for 5 decades.... and he did some Property Tax appeal work for Trump.
While certainly anything is possible (it's what they got capone on, right?) which do you think the odds favor?
Mark Rich went down for Tax evasion for doing work on behalf of the Clinton's so it's certainly possible. Guess that means Ivana will never be President either
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