Family Corruption
Gee, who would have guessed that a family member of Aldercreature Burke was under investigation?
- College tuition waivers awarded by a member of one of Chicago’s best-known political clans are under criminal investigation by a federal grand jury probing possible abuses in the state’s soon-to-be-dismantled legislative scholarship program.
The grand jury in Chicago subpoenaed State Rep. Dan Burke (D-Chicago), brother of Ald. Ed Burke (14th) and brother-in-law to Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke, making the veteran House Democrat at least the third known current or former lawmaker whose waivers are being probed by the feds.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
31 Comments:
Burkes brother is like Fredo in godfather. Hes a mush and just follows orders. He will be a good soldier and fall on the sword for Eddie.
Must be nice. The city won't even reimburse my tuition according to my FUCKING CONTRACT, but family members of these assholes get a free ride. Amazing how this city works.
any word on 19th ward FRAN and what is her culpabity in the scheme of things?????
I think Ol' Eddie is just as insulated, maybe even more so, than Mayor Daley. I hope they can link him to something, but he's been in that spot for about 40 years. If they haven't gotten him by now, they aren't going to.
Don't get too excited folks. Democrats are still running the show till January.
This royal family b.s. needs to end.
Vote people, VOTE.
How many chances do you get to change things in the system over your entire lifetime when elections come around just ever 4 years?
TWELVE election cycles if you are lucky!! TWELVE. Twelve shots at making a change and it may take several cycles just to get the message across so as the new candidates don't follow the same path of corporate corruption.
We need to get the corporate money out of politics and we need this good ol' boy royalty business out.
Don't blow the opportunities off and then wish you had done something in the past. There are no DO-OVERS.
A certain recently retired Captain is worried. his son received a scholarship to the U of I and his wife is employed as an administrator for a high ranking government official at the Thompson center. Making 225k between the two of them.
Waiting for the Trib to drop the bombshell instead of stating a high ranking police official.
Throw them in jail and take away their Pensions!
I wrote the check yesterday to pay my property tax bill and I wondered if the clients of Ed Burke and Mike Madigan had to pay the same increases that I had to pay for the privledge of owning real property in Cook County.
Then I realized of course not their clients pay them big bucks to pass out to individuals like Berrios and that the little guy has to make up the difference.
I would love to serve on a jury when one of these crooks appears in Federal Court and would promise to be unbiased!
How is Ed going to protect him at this point? Or is it a path to try and go after Ed and Judgie?
Anonymous said...
This royal family b.s. needs to end.
Vote people, VOTE.
How many chances do you get to change things in the system over your entire lifetime when elections come around just ever 4 years?
TWELVE election cycles if you are lucky!! TWELVE. Twelve shots at making a change and it may take several cycles just to get the message across so as the new candidates don't follow the same path of corporate corruption.
We need to get the corporate money out of politics and we need this good ol' boy royalty business out.
Don't blow the opportunities off and then wish you had done something in the past. There are no DO-OVERS.
7/26/2012 02:02:00 AM
You must be new in town. Most people here don't even bother to vote. Nothing to suggest that will change anytime soon. Most cops are not even registered to vote. That won't change either. FOP funded a voter registration drive last time. Results were pitiful. Most new registrars got Zero cops registered. Zero. None. No one new who hadn't been registered before. A cop who is not registered to vote won't tell anyone he is not registered.
FOP checked and went through the trouble of finding out how many were registered. The results were so pitiful that the FOP refused to make the numbers public.
This fall only about 28%-30% of registered voters will bother to vote and they will vote overwhelmingly for the regular hacks.
The other 70% will not be bothered to vote. That's reality. The inbred results of years of incest in Bridgeport will vote in greater numbers than anywhere else and decide for everyone else.
I have played this game before, pleading with people to vote, making posters and putting them up at police station bulletin boards all over. I have gone to roll calls and spoken to PO's. It is all a waste of time. Cops do not vote in any great numbers and can be completely disregarded as a voting bloc.
The vast majority of cops don't even bother to vote in their own union's elections and the union sends then the ballot with a stamped envelope inside, they only have to drop it in a mailbox and they cannot even be bothered to do that!
So save your breath. If you want to live in a country where the majority of citizens vote then move to France or Australia. The turnout there is over 90%. Not here. Turnout is always low. All that patriotic crap about shedding blood for the right to vote means nothing to the self-serving lazy bastards of today.
They simply will not bother to vote.
The Burke clan hasn't stolen enough f*cking money from taxpayers that they have to steal money for their spawn's college?
That whole program wasn't set up to help the needy, it was set up to benefit politicians. Sickening people, politicians. Black-hearted, soulless MF'ers.
The Burke crime family has obtained generational wealth by robbing this city blind. And his wife is a Judge. Sounds like chicago style justice to me...
Burke was the actual target in Operation Gambat. As the investigation was ongoing against him and his wife fixing cases, the US attorney heading the investigation leaves the office and joins a law firm. That law firm and former US attorney starts to represent Burke. burke basically bought the US attorney. It is in the book When corruption was king by Robert Cooley. He and his wife had murder cases fixed as well as agg batt to po in one of the suburbs.
He'll just have his CPD bodyguards take him to an airport and fly to his castle in Ireland where they have no extradition.
There's plenty of money to educate savages that come out and vote for more free shit, the politically connected, illegal aliens and any left wing communist, but no money to repay the tuition of cops and firemen.
But yuze just keep voting for that democratic machine.
I guess someone isn't going to get a Christmas card this year.
Ed will probably distance himself from junior to the point that he'll probably deny that they are related.
put these crooks in jail
Speaking of Burke, the O'hare golf outing is this week. Will this old power-hungry prick be in another state with his drivers and bodyguards? Who the fuck does this guy think he is? I would bet a paycheck that aside from city workers, less than 5% of the city population would recognize this asshole, much less someone from the sticks in wisconsin. He doesn't need a bodyguard, he just loves the power. He may not even possess a license because its been so long since he has had to drive himself anywhere.
Anonymous said...
Throw them in jail and take away their Pensions!
7/26/2012 04:16:00 AM
I'd rather we just throw them in the lake. Although that would just pollute the lake more.
Anonymous said...
This royal family b.s. needs to end.
Vote people, VOTE.
We need to get the corporate money out of politics and we need this good ol' boy royalty business out.
Which is it, a family problem or a corporate problem ?
Zalewski rewarded his cronies with scholarships too.
Hey,
Goose liver !!!
Don't nanny state the Ald. or his
main squeeze the Supereme. Judge
or he'll steeple you with his body language.
or
stare you down with his english styled socialist glasses.
Anonymous said...
Zalewski rewarded his cronies with scholarships too.
7/26/2012 01:22:00 PM
This guy needs to be bounced out of office. He throws a parade once or twice year and votes yes to every theft of citizen scam possible. YES to parking meters, school speed zones, sale of tollway, Olympics. This bandit has surely lined his nest.
Oh those Burke boys, they just can't steal enough of tax payers money. Those 14th warders must be bent over all of the time with a big target on their asses.
Don't get too excited folks. Democrats are still running the show till January.
The way things are going for Romney, I strongly suspect that the Machine will firmly entrenched and
in control after November of this year. Remember
you read it here first.
There's plenty of money to educate savages that come out and vote for more free shit, the politically connected, illegal aliens and any left wing communist, but no money to repay the tuition of cops and firemen.
I got news for you...a free fucking scholarship to college is "free shit" too...and who got those?
Heard a recently retired capt. whose wife works
for one of the clouted received one for their kid...
so there you go. And who are the 'savages' who
keep re-electing Burke term after term after term?
What kind of people live in his ward? City workers?
Large numbers of them? And what race would
those 'savages' be who keep re-electing that
scumbag into political office for how many years
now? Be careful about the words you choose to
describe "them," unless you're prepared to look
in the mirror while you're using them.
I have always asked and do so again: Where in hell is our Illinois State Attorney General, Lisa Madigan when it comes to legislative corruption? Madigan should have started an investigation into these abuses years ago. These people filling out these sworn applications for school money are committing perjury in their applications. Madigan should, in the very least, sue them for a return of all falsely received tuition funds. But, I guess she asked her daddy and he said no.
Anonymous said...
Don't get too excited folks. Democrats are still running the show till January.
7/26/2012 01:58:00 AM
Mittens better get his act together or they'll be running it until 2016.
Anonymous said...
He'll just have his CPD bodyguards take him to an airport and fly to his castle in Ireland where they have no extradition.
7/26/2012 09:46:00 AM
Burke's got a rotund crony at the airport that will drop him off at the gate. The van ain't as luxurious as Eddy's limo though.
It's not like at some point in time God won't take over this whole mess.
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