Oh Ed, You Sleazeball
Amazingly, he continues to hold his job and probably won't face any ethical, civil or criminal penalties:
- Ald. Edward M. Burke, the most powerful member of Chicago’s City Council, is also Edward M. Burke, attorney at law. His specialty: getting property-tax cuts and refunds for an A-list of business clients that includes Commonwealth Edison, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Avis Rent a Car and dozens of other companies that do business with City Hall.
As alderman, Burke helped pass a measure in 2002 that sharply limited City Hall’s ability to get in the way when his law clients go before an obscure state agency appealing for refunds of property taxes they thought were too high.
Burke (14th) was hardly the only alderman to vote for the resolution, which passed 47-0 and got so little attention at the time that even the head of the state agency it affects says he was unaware of it until now.
But you can bet Ed and his law partners knew exactly what they were doing. How many millions has this cost taxpayers?
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
41 Comments:
You gotta love this city.
It cost all of us our pensions and our healthcare.
Can't break a contract with Tio oh hell naw it's like the parking meter deal.
But when it comes to pension contracts and our healthcare why "it's necessary" and it's not breaking a contract -- hell naw it's reform and it will save.
Saving is good. Saving is noble, honorable.
Too lazy to vote. to organize and get your friends, neighbors, relatives to vote. Well, just deal with the corruption and the family royalty that is created then.
Enjoy maggie daley park in retirement and the Depaul basketball stadium and the river walk park for the billion dollar real estate moguls -- if they let the old homeless coppers loiter there.
No,no-no it's professional courtesy.
We need to be careful about the words we choose and the images that they conjure up -- Right Gary??
Ethics is only for the lowest of the lowest city workers. Not for the aldermen and whomever they decide are exempt.
Anyone wondering why the city or the country for that matter is on the brink.....POS
Ed will die a rich, respected, democrat boss. But you have to wonder, what does he see when he looks in a mirror? Honor? No, Virtue? No, Honesty?, no, Decency?, no, An ethical man? No, An honorable man? No.A good man? Hell no. Being such a total conniving scumbag, it's a wonder he didn't go much further in democrat politics than just another grasping slimeball, like Richie Daley.
In the old days an angry mob would form and the offending criminal/politicians would be given a new suit of tar and feathers. I miss the old days.
The least we can do is vote them out. Vote every sitting politician out of office.
What does it matter ???? the citizens of shitcago are here to make sure the "mayor" and his band of accomplises make all the money they are able to at our expense ! It's the shitcago way !!
He's a genius. He deserves a 56 MILLION DOLLAR park.
Ethics is for you and me, not for THEM. Nothing to see here, move along.
This scam has been going on forever in Crook County. The county raises your real estate taxes. You hire a lawyer firm that specializes in lowering your taxes. Your taxes then get lowered and you pay the firm their percentage of the savings. If your taxes were unjustly raised in the first place you wouldn't have to hire these sleezeball firms in the first place.
What baffles me is that anywhere else these turds would be laughing stock. Here they are honored.
Does he still have his private security team?
I hasn't cost the tax payers anything. In fact, it has saved the tax payers who use the services of those companies money because those services now cost less due to less overhead cost.
Businesses do not pay taxes. The people who use their goods and services pay those taxes in the form of higher costs.
Where the fuck are the Feds??
He does dress well, though.
Now, Kees me you fool!!!!
No conflict of interest.
As usual, just grin and
bear it.
Know how about term limits reduction of aldercreatures and jail sound?
Can't break a likely corrupt contract with some sleazy connected firm who stole the City's parking meters, no no, can't break that, but they can tell us the Illinois Constitution can be shit on when it comes to our pensions and health care. Those words on paper voted on by the legislature and signed by every lying thieving goddamned politician in power at the time can be ignored because the pensions are "unsustainable" but that crooked parking meter contract? Oh no, rock solid, we are stuck with it for 75 years. Oh my, why isn't that parking meter contract "unsustainable?"
Where is loudmouth suckhole Lawrence Msall on the parking meter contract? A couple of billion down the tubes there. That must be "sustainable."
Fucking horseshit goddamn city, fucking horseshit goddamn county, fucking horseshit goddamn state. Fucking horseshit goddamn politicians!
Anonymous said...
Ethics is only for the lowest of the lowest city workers. Not for the aldermen and whomever they decide are exempt.
6/03/2013 12:33:00 AM
If everyone tore up that ethics declaration and simply wrote FUCK YOU on it or the computer version, how the hell would they enforce thousands of non-complying employees?
I'll pay the $20 just for the satisfaction of submitting mine with FUCK YOU on it.
Nanny boy burke
ban everything except political corruption
pass the foi gras rhambo, you splashed some on your ribbions mc goof.
eddie burke will die a billionaire n lisa magidan will be our next gov. n nora conroy daley will be our next mayor.
Amazing that he's never been caught dirty
what an insult and a slap in the face from rahm and co. he won't terminate the contract with a criminal like tio, but he will, without hesitation, fuck us out of our pension and the obamamama is screwing us out of our healthcare beginning 2017. no sense in waiting until we reach 55 now. this is why our country and world are turning to shit because we have so-called leaders rewarding the scum and screwing the hard-working class for doing right. god forbid we plan appropriate for our futures and then get to keep our benefits and money. nooooo, obamamama says we need to share our hard-earned money with the scum of the country.
Did anyone notice that small article about how ComEd packs the building with employees in Springfield to watch how our government votes for them? They passed a bill to pass the cost of the "Smart Meters", on to the customers in a rate hike. The Governor vetoed it and the paid in full pols. voted for an overide of his veto!!!! Who is looking out for us?????
Where is that turd Andy Shaw and his BGA on this??
Off Topic: Sen. LIBERAL from NJ died today choked on his bullshit.
This is a surprise how?
Watching congressional hearings on IRS corruption (I've got time on my hands). Mike Quigley-D from Chicago gets on for his 5 minutes and starts with a 2 minute spiel on how corrupt the place he comes from is and has been. He's an expert on corruption. Makes you proud to be from Illinois.
Hypothetic Question:
Which four politicians will be riding in the first cart to the guillotine when the revolution comes?
Your choice.
Ed Burke is an honorable man with sound judgment. He was my clout.
Peoples Gas did the same thing as Commonwealth Edison with there so called AMRP(main replacement project)to tag $$$ on your monthly bill.The funny thing is they used the general assembly that we pay to stick up the consumer.
Who are Com-Ed and Peoples Gas lobbyist that is the question?
Let's remember he also passes out Police and Fire badges to prominent Chicagoans. CMPunk the wrestler likes to flash his Burke badges around Wicker Park AND at the airport. Unbelievable!
Like Emanuel, Burke has succeeded that shamelessly corrupt rat cocksucker Richard M. Daley as a poster boy for "CHICAGO VALUES".
Anonymous said...
Where the fuck are the Feds??
6/03/2013 07:56:00 AM
They are the City's new Gang Team. So now maybe they will stay away from politicians.
Anonymous said...
In the old days an angry mob would form and the offending criminal/politicians would be given a new suit of tar and feathers. I miss the old days.
The least we can do is vote them out. Vote every sitting politician out of office.
6/03/2013 05:29:00 AM
Vote them out of office? Oh that's funny, really.
You obviously haven't been paying attention these past 50 years or so. Vote them out of office. Good one. I never would have thought of that.
All the labor unions even the landscapers lobbied for com-ed and peoples gas down in springfield.
I met Ed Burke twice, total piece of shit arrogant punk!!!
Burke has his own custom badge made up. I have never saw one, but he gives them to friends. He uses the same company that makes C.P.D. stars. He was at the last Chicago IACP conference vendor area getting new prices for more to be made.
burke has 24 hour security what the fuck the judge ann burke his security 24 hours a day fuck them they also have a driver and a state and city car for free time to send them a 1099 for all of this shit the city and state are broke
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