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CHICAGO — The owner of a Burger King in then-Alderman Edward Burke’s Southwest Side ward told a federal jury Tuesday he agreed to hire the powerful Democrat’s property tax law
Welcome to Compliance Notes from Nossaman’s Government Relations & Regulation Group – a periodic digest of the headlines, statutory and regulatory changes and court cases involving.
CHICAGO — Deborah Bekken, a onetime Field Museum director, was calling powerful Chicago Alderman Edward Burke to ask for his support for the museum’s proposal for a fee increase in September 2017 when he caught her off guard with an immediately chilly demeanor. “Well, uh, I was surprised to hear from you — to be very frank,” a gruff-sounding Burke said to Bekken on the Sept. 8, 2017, call, .
One of Chicago's longest-serving local politicians, former Alderman Edward Burke, used his considerable power to "line his own pockets with money," leveraging his position to steer business to his personal law firm and attempting to get a job for a family friend, federal prosecutors told a Chicago federal jury Thursday.