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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:41 PM Dec 2018

Chicago :Feds raid Ald. Burke's City Hall offices for a second time

Federal agents returned to the City Hall offices of Ald. Ed Burke on Thursday, two weeks after they carried out unprecedented raids on the longtime alderman’s downtown and ward offices, sources said

CBS 2 legal analyst Irv Miller says a second raid is unusual and agents would have had to secure a new warrant to go back in today.

CBS 2 reached out to the FBI, but they will not confirm or deny the report.

During the first raid, a number of computer hard drives, several boxes stacked on top of one another, and at least one computer monitor were among the items removed raid by a half dozen law enforcement agents from the back door of Ald. Ed Burke’s 14th Ward office.

Burke is often referred to as Chicago’s most powerful alderman
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/12/13/breaking-new-fbi-raid-of-alderman-ed-burkes-office-in-chicago-city-hall/
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Hmmm
They also showed up at the home of Peter Andrews Jr., the longtime head of Burke’s ward organization.
They seized Burke’s cell phone too

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Chicago :Feds raid Ald. Burke's City Hall offices for a second time (Original Post) lunasun Dec 2018 OP
Found the back channel I guess...nt 2naSalit Dec 2018 #1
Interesting to say the least. Wellstone ruled Dec 2018 #2
 

Wellstone ruled

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2. Interesting to say the least.
Thu Dec 13, 2018, 11:48 PM
Dec 2018

Wonder if this has to do with Trump Hotel dumping waste water into the Chicago River and or the fact that Burke got the County Assessor to dump the Real estate Taxes on this Hotel.

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