Obama-Backed & Endorsed Illinois Democrat Governor Tackled By Feds
For Toilet Tax Fraud, by Daniel Greenfield, 4/25/19.
Chicago politics are in the toilet. But
never has that been quite as true as in the case of Governor JB Pritzker.
Pritzker
was heavily backed by Barack Hussein Obama in his
campaign to take power in Illinois. Former President Barack Obama has made a
campaign stop with Democratic candidate for Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker and
his running mate, state Rep. Juliana Stratton. The
surprise visit to Caffe Paradiso in Urbana followed Obama's speech Friday at
the University of Illinois, where he railed against President Donald Trump and
urged students to get involved in the November elections.
Pritzker is trying to unseat
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner. He and Stratton joined Obama as the former
president walked the cafe, chatting up students and other customers and posing
for photos.
Obama told the crowd before leaving:
"You guys, remember to vote. Governor, lieutenant governor, all the way
down the ballot."
Vote
early, vote often, vote illegal. Obama made personal appearances with Pritzker,
campaigned for him and cut a videofor him in which he declared that he was
proud to endorse the adipose racist sleazeball.
“J.B.
gets things done,” declares an earnest-looking Obama, looking relaxed and
healthy, if with considerably more gray hair than back in the day.
Obama
lauds Pritzker’s work in establishing the 1871 tech incubator here and his work
on providing school breakfasts for poor kids. “I know J.B. I trust
J.B.,” says Obama. “That’s who he is . . . someone who identifies the right
problems and brings people together to solve them.” Like, apparently, the
problem of how to avoid paying taxes for your mansion by getting rid of all the toilets.
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.
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.
A
Cook County inspector general’s report, first published by the Chicago
Sun-Times, later found MK Pritzker directed workers to remove all toilets from
the mansion in order to have it declared “uninhabitable,” which gave the
Pritzkers a huge property tax break. The report also found that Lovely and the
governor’s brother-in-law, Thomas J. Muenster, made “false representations” on
tax appeal documents.
The
county watchdog said all of that amounted to a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers
out of more than $331,000.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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