Using Burke's Law to rip-off city schools
While Rahm Emanuel continues to blame school budget cuts on retirees' pensions, his machine partner Eddie Burke is getting fat ripping off the schools by helping corporate pals avoid paying property taxes. In doing so, Burke has the full cooperation of Rahm and his City Hall legal department which rarely challenges tax appeals from Buke's clients.
14th Ward Alderman Burke, the man we used to call "Slow Eddie", when he and "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak organized their racist clique against the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington, isn't so slow after all. While the feds finally caught up with Vrdolyak in 2007 and sent him to prison for mail and wire fraud, Burke remained free by figuring out how to rip off the city and public school system, legally.
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