More Fraud

So the head of the CTU had an Indiana address as her primary residence for years, garnering massive tax breaks.

The District Attorney in New York who conducted unprecedented lawfare against Trump was committing mortgage fraud on a grand scale with her primary residence listed in Virginia.

One of the Federal Reserve governors had not one, not two, but three separate mortgages, snaring tax breaks for at least two of them under false pretenses. There might even be a fourth that is being looked into.

And now, locally, more residential fraud:

• The head of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center has been getting property tax breaks in Michigan that are allowed only for a primary residence for years even though he’s required to live in Cook County, an investigation by Injustice Watch has found.

  Leonard Dixon, who at $280,000 a year is among the county’s highest-paid officials, has been the superintendent of the center for a decade. It’s one of the country’s largest youth jails.

  Asked where he lives, Dixon told a reporter, “I live in Chicago.”  And a spokesman for his boss, Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evans, says a review Evans commissioned found that Dixon lives in Illinois.

  But records show Dixon and his wife own a house in Woodhaven, Michigan, for which they receive a property tax break that Michigan law allows only for a homeowner’s principal residence — a tax break they have gotten for the past 30 years. Since 2015, when Dixon took the Cook County job, the exemption has saved them more than $13,000 in property taxes.

He also owns two other properties in Florida in some sort of a blind trust, hiding parts of the ownership details, but he listed his Michigan address as his primary residence, meaning he doesn't live here.

But don't you try anything like that to beat the onerous tax burdens here.