Ed Burke
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Posted on 01/03/2019 2:24:28 PM PST by PBRCat
The federal complaint says the fast-food company wanted to remodel a restaurant in Burke’s ward. When an executive called to ask why Burke’s office was holding up the permit to remodel, the alderman told him he needed to meet to discuss trucks that parked in the restaurant’s lot. Then he told a city employee to find out which lawyer did the company’s taxes.
On June 11, 2017, Burke spoke by cellphone to an out-of-state public official who was meeting with the fast-food company executive, the complaint says. The official offered to “let him know how important you are.”
“You’re good to do that, but I’d also like to get some of his law business, and get him involved here,” Burke replied, according to the complaint.
“Chicago,” the official replied.
“Yeah, he’s a businessman here, and you gotta, ah, be active,” Burke allegedly said.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobusiness.com ...
You are kidding, right? This is standard practice in that city. I worked construction there and payoffs to everybody and their brother were common.
Kept his duke too long in the tambourine.
Fwiw, Entrepreneur Shoukat Dhanani Runs One Of America's Largest Private Businesses -- Very, Very Quietly
The real question is why the Chicago Machine decided to get rid of him. It’s not like what he was doing is all that different from the other guys.
CHICAGO MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL STRONGLY DEFENDED "CHICAGO VALUES" (circa 2009)
Ballet dancer Mayor Rahm Emanuel gracefully plied into the 2009 controversy created after Alderman Proco Joe Moreno (1st ward) publicly announced his opposition to Chick-Fil-A opening in his ward b/c the Christian food company demurred WRT homo-marriages.
Mayor Rham chuckled while doing a graceful plie: "It's easy to do business in Chicago when you know 'the rules.' Chick-Fil-A can open in our town as long as it adopts 'Chicago Values'.....listed as follows: "
(1) weekly cash pay off to the alderman;
(2) hire six of the alderman's friends who work only random days of the month,
(3) BIG AL from the Mayor's office picks up all cash in brown paper bags at C/F/A's back door,
(4) Chick Fil A staff trained by Chicago PD to shoot 10-12 customers per month,
(5) Any C/F/A customers actually killed must be registered to vote as Democrats at the autopsies,
(6) $100,00 campaign contribution to Obama,
(7) free food to Jesse Jackson, Jr, who is now "convalescing in jail," b/c he screwed up buying Obama's Senate seat....
(8) free sandwiches to ex-Gov Blago now in jail for running an auction to sell Obama's Senate seat to the highest bidder.
Edmund Burke has been a Chicago Alderman for 50 years. Burke’s brother ran for state rep and lost. His wife is a judge. His ward ,14th, was originally known as “Back of The Yards” Once the home of the famous Chicago Stock Yards where most food processors along with employee demographics have since relocated. It was a compact area almost square composed mostly of single and 2 story frame and brick family dwellings mixed with scattered brick apartment units.
His ward now consists of areas carved from the 12th and 23rd wards miles from the original 14th boundaries.
When redistricted along with several other wards. Chicago had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.
That has had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity. Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. It has also played hell on zoning and because of the disruption of jurisdictions with the administration of city services such as streets and sanitation which the alderman (salary $120.000 plus allocations on local projects) do oversee and have input over.
“The real question is why the Chicago Machine decided to get rid of him. “
He stepped on someone’s toes. Emanuel threw him under the bus today.
“This is standard practice in that city. I worked construction there and payoffs to everybody and their brother were common.”
You got that right brother. Just about everybody who wants to do business there has to schmear some government puke. Burke is an apex feeder at this trough and deserves all the years in stir they can give him. I remember him turning beet red with passion while arguing on the city council floor in favor of Jane Byrne’s infamous handgun ban in 1982...I saw it in person. Then he was equally instrumental in the smoking ban and a whole bunch of other bans. A thorough rotter.
“Yeah, he’s a businessman here, and you gotta, ah, be active,” Burke allegedly said.”
Chicago speak for where’s the vig?
And her is another common occurrence in Chicago, to be driving down a street that is freshly plowed of snow and salted, then to go past an intersection and encounter Siberian-like road conditions.
I live near Burke, his street is always plowed, curb to curb.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_M._Burke
Anne Burke is a favorite of the ultra-lib Chicago media, and though the whiff of scandal has often swirled, she’s been untouched so far...
Not just plowed curb to curb, it's always plowed first.
Not just standard practice in Chicago, it's standard practice everywhere in C(r)ook County.
That practice has rapidly spread to the surrounding collar counties and Springfield also.
We used to think in the 90's that Arkansas was the most corrupt state in the country. Illinois makes Arkansas look like a buncha pikers by comparison.
We used to think in the 90's that Arkansas was the most corrupt state in the country. Illinois makes Arkansas look like a buncha pikers by comparison.
Politicians in D.C. were a bunch of pikers until Chicago style corruption spread there with the Jugears administration.
You got that right!!
He inherited his aldermanic seat from his father. His brother Dan just resigned after losing his State Representative seat. Wife a judge. Appears to be a Monarchy here in Illinois.
The answer is quite simple really: Ed Burke was hoovering up all the payola, leaving not even scraps for the rest of 'em.
From what I've seen on the local news here in the Chicago market, no one, not even his staunchest allies in the Chicago City Council are coming to his defense.
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