Alder Eddie Burke, Trump Tower and Trump's "staggering fraud."
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While 30 Chicago alders have been indicted for one form of corruption or another since 1973, the poster boy for aldermanic corruption remains Eddie Burke.
Under indictment, he remains in City Council.
And of course there is a connection between Eddie Burke and Attorney General Letitia James of New York and her giant lawsuit on Wednesday that accused Donald J. Trump, his family business and three of his children of lying to lenders and insurers by fraudulently overvaluing his assets by billions of dollars.
James intends to bar the Trumps, including Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, from ever running a business in New York state again.
The 220-page lawsuit, filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, lays out in detail how Mr. Trump’s annual financial statements were full of lies. The statementthat include the company’s estimated value of its holdings and debts wildly inflated the worth of nearly every one of its marquee properties, according to the lawsuit. They include Mar-a-Lago in Florida, Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street in Manhattan and Trump Tower in Chicago.
Trump’s bag man in Chicago has been Eddie Burke, spouse to retiring Illinois Supreme Court Chief Justice, Anne Burke.
The original story of Burke’s ties to Trump and his Chicago property tax breaks were in the Sun-Times. For some reason those stories are no longer available on Google search.
An investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times has found that Trump's namesake tower on the Chicago River has gotten some big property tax breaks thanks to the law firm of Ald. Ed Burke (14th Ward).
Over the last six years, Burke's law firm Klafter & Burke has convinced the Cook County Board of Review to lower the assessments on the hotel and commercial space owned by Trump and his investors by almost $12 million dollars. Many of the hundreds of the residential condo owners also won reductions.
When it comes to the art of the steal Eddie Burke wrote the book.
Ann Burk did vote to save our pensions.