Another Governor to Prison?
- Democratic Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law are under federal criminal investigation for a dubious residential property tax appeal that dogged him during his gubernatorial campaign last year, WBEZ has learned.
A law-enforcement source familiar with the investigation confirmed to WBEZ that the probe, which has not been revealed publicly until now, began last October and remains active. There are no signs that criminal charges are imminent.
WBEZ has also confirmed that Illinois First Lady MK Pritzker’s personal assistant who was involved in the property tax appeal, Christine Lovely, is being represented by one of Chicago’s most high-powered lawyers. Her attorney, Reid Schar, is a former federal prosecutor who helped convict ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges.
The developments demonstrate that the billionaire governor and his wife may face a serious legal threat arising from their controversial pursuit of a property tax break on a 126-year-old mansion they purchased next to their Gold Coast home.
Unfortunately, we think there might be a tiny little double-standard where rich people are concerned. So while Jaybee "the Hutt" is most certainly a typical rich scamming Illinois politico, this is more likely to end in a fine than jail time.
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:02 AM
66 Comments:
Kinda soon even for Illinois Gov....
Don’t they normally finish their terms before they end up in the slammer?
Or are they that corrupt?
Who is the Lieutenant Governor?
How incompetent are they?
How corrupt are they?
“Hey J.B., what’d you do the first 100 days?”
J.B. :”Well, passed my minimum wage raise bill, proposed a graduated income tax plan, and I got my first federal investigation. It was a busy 100 days!!.”
Lock this fat fuck up. It’ll save his life. He’ll lose weight eating prison food.
Has he even had time to sit for his Gubernatorial Portrait yet?
That didn’t take long
I hope the Feds investigate Rahm next.
...or maybe the Feds are digging deeper and finding even more corrupt stuff. We pray.
Don't blame me, I voted for Jeannie Ives....
Miss paying on some parkers and red light tickets they boot your car and hold it hostage until you pay up. One of the richest men in illinois scams on his property taxes and he gets elected governor of this shithole. Fatso is sitting in his office trying to figure out how to fuck you out of more of your money while he scams his way thru life.
Let's change the "Land of Lincoln" motto on our license plates --- -
Illinois - Where our Governors make our license plates.
JB Quote - Tax me?? No, TAX YOU!!
Governer Ty-D-Bowl the Hut.!
Has he even had time to sit for his Gubernatorial Portrait yet?
4/25/2019 12:30:00 AM
He can wear his prison garb with his natural hair color peeking thru
The only problem for Pritzker is this is a long term investigation that attached itself to another long term investigation. The Governor can claim innocence but his hubris and timing put him in jeopardy. This did not start because of Rauner or republicans writing a letter.
Q: What's the difference between an Illinois' Democrat Governor and a Felon?
A: A little time.
Lock them up!
Anonymous said...
Has he even had time to sit for his Gubernatorial Portrait yet........................
It's being painted in sections since he can't fit onto just one canvas!!!!
Nothing will happen to Jabba and the Fat Lady. Their attorneys will work it all out and they’ll continue to steal from us for many future decades (and generations). BLAGO wouldn’t be in jail, if that criminal investigation wasn’t headed straight to BARRY. And there lies the difference.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
“Hey J.B., what’d you do the first 100 days?”
J.B. :”Well, passed my minimum wage raise bill, proposed a graduated income tax plan, and I got my first federal investigation. It was a busy 100 days!!.”
Lock this fat fuck up. It’ll save his life. He’ll lose weight eating prison food.
4/25/2019 12:26:00 AM
Don’t forget he’s pushing to trample everyone’s 2A rights. I do miss those commercials where JB Prissker was the only man who cared about me when I was in prison. LMFAO
jb take rahm with you! rahm you have destroyed a City and so many of its People.
George Ryan ended the death penalty because he is responsible for the death of those children in the car crash years ago, now those 2 parents can live for years on our dime. Burn in hell George.
Porcelain Prince.
Illinois - The only State of the Union that has a dedicaded wing in the federal prison system for our Governors.
And we all know who actually runs the State...MadAgain. And why did Lisa decide to retire? She lost the CCL battle after McDonald V Chicago and then signed off on a FOIA request to publish the names and addresses of FOID card holders? WTF was she thinking? The ISRA stopped that not-sense (support them - it's not expensive). What the law suit may have sugested was to release only the FOID card holders who hold elected offices first, and then revisit the idea a year later...
Pritzker ran against a pro abortion sanctuary state republican governor, everything is legit people. Do what I say, don’t do what I do.
Read Gus Russo's excellent book on Chicago history of Mob and Pritzker connections; book's called "Super Mob". Great read, outlines history of some of Chicago's big business figures' ties to Mob. Pritzkers aren't "clean". JB's just following family practice. Sad thing is that he STILL GOT ELECTED, with no qualifications other than being a rich guy with political connections and ability to buy his way anywhere he wants to go.
Blago: "$&%#£¥€, this seat is worth something"
That's so weird that Lisa Madigan didn't launch an investigation when this news broke before she left office. Nor has Kwame... Any ideas why?
4 of Illinois' last 7 governors went to prison
Fill in the blanks
1) Otto Kerner — Governor from 1961-1968.
2) Dan Walker — Governor from 1973-1977.
3) George Ryan — Governor from 1999 through 2003.
4) Rod Blagojevich — Governor from 2002 through 2009, when he became the first
Illinois governor in history to be impeached.
5) ________TBD____________________
6) ________TBD____________________
Move along nuttin' to see here
Scratch the surface of any leftist and you'll find a tax dodger.
An Illinois tradition you can be proud of. Do as I say not as I do.
Hope for Shittcago: https://dmlnewsapp.com/report-fbi-irs-agents-search-baltimore-mayors-homes-city-hall/
Boys and girls: Prayers up for our less than fair city and generational corruption’s end!
Stay fetal
Walk with God
God bless all POs. Thank you. We really do stand behind everyone of you. We may not appreciate that speeding or parking ticket, or having to obey a direct order, but once our emotions subside, we know we’re in safe and blessed hands.
Notice how selective the Feds are about who they investigate and who they let alone. They will 'leak' tidbits about an investigation when they want something done. If you play ball, it goes away. It should be painfully obvious to anyone honest that the Feds have been coopted after watching the way Obama, Comey, Hillary, etc were handled.
Madigan and Pritzker under the microscope for petty tricks, what do the Feds want from lawmakers? 2a. The Dem trifecta is in place in Illinois, Feds want draconian gun laws ramrodded as it is imperative for Socialism Plan. Illinois will be test case, as will NJ and Cali.
What is that flushing sound?
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
keep talking impeachment JB
im sure trump can find a few more things for the fbi to look into
Supported 100% by the extreme progressive leftist teachers unions. Property taxes fund the schools so the governor is depriving the children of much needed revenue to ensure teachers are adequately paid just wages over their working 9 months. Workers unite! Will the teachers union take back their million in campaign funds and cut off further political contribution in that familiar scheme identified as campaign donations?
Is the fatso governor the 1% that socialist-marxist democrats identify as not paying their fair share? Those pinko commies on the left now have a valid argument about billionaires not divesting themselves of their personal fortunes to be redistributed to the marginalized at risk inner city children.
Shame on you governor depriving recent immigrant children, children with disabilities, children of color and those children who choose the alternative lifestyles of just funding for their Constitutional right to publicly funded indoctrination which begins at the free head start child care and continues through the college years. Shame on you governor. Just pony up and "invest" in the children. Shame on you with your white privilege. Where is your democrat party touted guilt for being on non-color and having excessive wealth? You are a disgrace as a social justice minded democrat.
Although I think seeing Elmer the Bull-Shipper hauled off by the Feds for tax evasion would be hysterical, I'm afraid whoever is the Lieutenant Governor would be able to rubber-stamp anything Mike Madigan shovels their way just as well as JB the Hutt.
So no win for us, alas.
Cheat on your own taxes while you raise taxes on everyone else.
What a hypocrite!
They are all corrupt MF,S , next go after the city council!
From Fox News website: ............
Illinois Gov. Pritzker under federal investigation for tax break on mansion
>>>>> Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, along with his wife and brother-in-law, reportedly is under federal criminal investigation for a questionable property tax appeal that has hung over him since last year’s gubernatorial race. ~~~para~~~ Pritzker – a Democrat who took office earlier this year – has been the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation since last October, <<<<<
When I heard this reported early yesterday evening on Fox News I laughed my ass off. I told my wife: 'Here we go again, another Democrat governor off to Federal Prison'.
At least we can all hope :-)
ps: I wonder if they make those orange Prison Jumpsuits in size: 'XXXXXXXXXXL Short' (rotflmao)
Another filthy lying scumbag democrat caught dirty again. Nothing will happen to him though. This state is rotten from the top down/
Anything about the Assessors office, that allowed this to happen?
I love how he says he is sure that he "followed all the rules". What rules does he speak of? Using union labor to do work in his nonresidence while workers in his hotels were on strike? The rules of defrauding the government? The rule that says when you are caught defrauding the government, you just pay it back, say you are sorry and all is forgiven? Or is it that those with the means can do what they want? I really would like some one to explain these rules to me
JB... “ I got this scam.. “ it’s golden” coast!
Year's ago He got caught trying to cheat the IRS of 50 million,The IRS settled for 10 million.He has Paid everybody off.
When I heard this on the radio yesterday, I laughed out loud. This will not stick, of course, because, you know, the whole Pritzer bandshell and all, but it sure is good for a laugh.
He was head high in the Blagojevich nonsense. On TAPE also. Avoiding the real estate taxes was also known before the election. However, a lot of our co-workers voted for this slob.
I doubt this Will be enough to send him to prison.
This is going to be one of those guys that everybody swears up and down they didn’t fucking vote for him yet somehow he became fucking governor And it will all start after he gets Forgiven for his tax mishaps and then goes on to text the shit out of the regular people in the state
Jag Bag wants income tax increase so everybody pays fair share.
Why doesn't the demorat thief bring all the monies he has off-shore
and pay Illinois tax and federal tax on the billions to help the state's
finances and also help the federal deficit.
Instead he rips toilets out of his second mansion to AVOID taxes!
What a hypocrite!
JB Pigster comes from a family that owned Failed Superior Bank, stiffed bank account deposit holders of over $10 Million.
Not only did they stiff these individual mom and pop depositors but also the FDIC and the taxpayers.
How did The Pricksters do this you ask?
They inflated assets, capital and earnings, of course through the enhanced Clinton-era Community ReInvestment Act.
One of the catalysts that led to the collapse of Fannie & Freddie Mac along with subprime lowered standards lending.
Superior made this an art before the big crash.
Remember when Rahm Emanuel (your mayor and once Chief O’Staff to,a Clinton and obama) dumped his Freddie stock for a sweet return before it collapsed and everyone else without that inside information lost big?
So The Prickster’s are no strangers to manipulation and malfeasance by any means.
They worked a deal to avoid those Superior Bank fines and levies down to $428 million.
Then finagled a deal with FDIC to only pay back $316 mil.
What they did pay back was also interest free.
Individual depositors, some 1600 were left without recourse.
Under the financially dismal years of the lying undocumented hawaiian, deals were made he appoints Penny Prickster Commerce Secretary. Wonder how much influence Rahm had acting as an intermediary. No big investigation then, passed swiftly through the Senate confirmation.
Will JB Pignuts be so lucky?
Let’s see if that old black magic works with this DOJ Administration.
As for Cook County, they’re willing to settle for a Dem and he’s going to settle up those oversights.
Maybe pull a few new permits, pay any local fines and late penalties - just to keep the lid on the family ledgers.
Big mouth pig squeak Rahm and all his POTUS trash talk.
I hope this is the result.
And you still have to wonder...why did Rahm leave oh-so abruptly.
Funny thing about gubner Donde'...I asked everyone I know , and NO ONE voted for him. I'd like to know how he really won the election.
That would be fantastic then this in Baltimore people rejoicing will rahm be next?
FBI raids Baltimore City Hall, home of Mayor Catherine Pugh, her attorney's office and three other locations
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-baltimore-20190424-story.html
Chicago most corrupt then county come on feds make us proud here thank you!
JB Quote - Tax me?? No, TAX YOU!!
4/25/2019 03:02:00 AM
Tax off to taxes!
Don't blame me, I voted for Jeannie Ives....
4/25/2019 01:10:00 AM
That was the primary. You were probably too pissed off to vote in the general election, so you do deserve some of the blame.
Can JB get a Quad reserved at the Federal Prison with Blago, Fast Eddie & Ed Burke?
The Lightweight Governor is Julia Stratton, a one term State Representative hand picked by Michael J. Madigan, who seems totally unprepared to lead. The same could be said of Fatso who never held an actual job in his adult life due to his inherited wealth and offshore accounts.
Where’s that extra popcorn?:
Feds ask for more time to indict Ald. Edward Burke in corruption case
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicago-alderman-edward-burke-prosecutors-seek-more-time-indictment/
Maybe attacking Eddie wasn’t to smart let’s hope he’s talking and many more will fall load up bus city hall county building all aboard!
Well there not too many white fat men in prison are There? Problem is there might not be enough orange material to make his jump suit. Maybe Omar Kimm the tent maker could help fit Jabba the Hutt.
Must have passed somebody important off.
I agree with you SCC.
He’ll get a slap on the wrist, write a check and move on.
When is she going to go to prison just goes to show she is in favor of the criminals incredible what she gets away with and a bullshit lies she’s allowed to impose on the good people you don’t want scumbags rent your property she’s destroying the county and the city in the entire state she is a pathetic ignorant waste of space;
Cook County makes it illegal to refuse to show or rent property to people with certain criminal records
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-met-housing-ordinance-arrest-record-20190425-story.html
No wonder so many people are fleeing this most corrupt city state and county in the United States of America just another reason to sell whatever property you have and get out of this shit hole!
I've been to 2 ISP funerals where JB spoke. At one he felt the need to tell the grieving family about how hard he had it after his dad died when he was 7. To the normal person it sounds terrible, but he neglected to mention his million dollar trust fund where he never had to worry about putting a roof over his head or any other financial burdens us normal folks endure. Clearly from his physique, he never missed a meal................
4 of Illinois' last 7 governors went to prison
Fill in the blanks
1) Otto Kerner — Governor from 1961-1968.
2) Dan Walker — Governor from 1973-1977.
3) George Ryan — Governor from 1999 through 2003.
4) Rod Blagojevich — Governor from 2002 through 2009, when he became the first
Illinois governor in history to be impeached.
5) ________TBD____________________
6) ________TBD____________________
Move along nuttin' to see here
4/25/2019 07:41:00 AM
Not defending him, but Walker’s crimes occurred after he was out of office. Ryan’s crimes were while he was the Sec of State.
Is any of this a FEDERAL crime? (Well, maybe mail fraud.)
Damn, that was quick
lol
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