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| 2019-09-13 |
| [AmericanThinker] ...As Chicago's longest serving alderman faces prison time, his spouse will become the state's most powerful judge. The state's high court justices on Sept. 10 elected Justice Anne Burke to chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, succeeding former Chief Justice Lloyd A. Karmeier. (snip) Burke's rise to chief justice comes while her husband, 14th Ward Ald. Ed Burke, faces a 14-count indictment on federal corruption charges. In January, federal prosecutors accused the alderman of attempting to extort the owners of a Burger King franchise in his ward by withholding a remodeling permit in order to pressure them to hire his private law firm to handle their property tax appeals. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 It's not just Chicago. Every other gov from any party seems to end up in the pen. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2019-09-13 13:08 |
| #1 I wonder how corrupt you have to be to be the top dog of Chicago politics? /0 |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-09-13 05:31 |