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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot earned more than $350K from law firm during first year in office, tax return shows
Chicago Tribune ^ | 3/27/2021 | Gregory Pratt

Posted on 04/10/2021 7:29:53 PM PDT by simpson96

Myor Lori Lightfoot reported making $497,000 in 2019, her first year in office, according to a tax return released by the mayor’s office.

Lightfoot, who took office on May 20 that year, made $111,120 in city wages for the portion of the year she was mayor and $352,645 from Mayer Brown, her former law firm, the return shows.

The mayor’s effective tax rate was 30.7%.

Lightfoot’s adjusted gross income the year before was $813,000 from Mayer Brown, according to her tax filing.

During the mayoral campaign, Lightfoot reported an average adjusted gross income of $971,626 from 2014 through 2017, from Mayer Brown, which she left in 2018 to run for mayor. She paid an effective tax rate of 38.6% over the four years.

Lightfoot officials did not answer repeated questions about why she earned money from Mayer Brown in 2019.

(Excerpt) Read more at herald-review.com ...


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1 posted on 04/10/2021 7:29:53 PM PDT by simpson96
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2 posted on 04/10/2021 7:33:21 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (AKA Lee J Keslin posting in the hopes comments get passed around )
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She needs to be spreading more of her financial wealth around.

She already spreads way too much of her intellectual “wealth” around.


3 posted on 04/10/2021 7:34:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To be fair, that income was from royalties from the Betelgeuse movie and soundtrack. She earned it.
4 posted on 04/10/2021 7:35:20 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (wwg1wga Godwins; what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them.. )
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5 posted on 04/10/2021 7:37:00 PM PDT by janetjanet998
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Satan pays his demons quite well.......but only for awhile.


6 posted on 04/10/2021 7:41:21 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Pray for America....)
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“Side benefits” gotta be big money in the major’s office for catfish lightfoot to pass up on a $971k/yr job for a $110k gummit gig

(Btw: how bout that fan reception for her opening day pitch?)


7 posted on 04/10/2021 7:43:34 PM PDT by thinden
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How many fans were there?


8 posted on 04/10/2021 7:57:25 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: simpson96

Who did she bill to get the paycheck? If she didn’t bill then the money is graft.


9 posted on 04/10/2021 7:58:32 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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She is a Lawyer, what is her specialty of practice? I would not hire her for any reason, Anyone in Chicago know about her legal career?


10 posted on 04/10/2021 8:01:37 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page)
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The money is flowing the wrong way unless a mayor is moonlighting.


11 posted on 04/10/2021 8:04:02 PM PDT by Salvavida
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Groot Grabs The Loot!


12 posted on 04/10/2021 8:11:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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Again worth repeating:

Nice deal...
Communist apparatchiks everywhere (since 1928) never hurt for comforts & privilege...
No reason for this POS to be any different...


13 posted on 04/10/2021 8:57:08 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another Samuel Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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14 posted on 04/10/2021 9:11:56 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there is no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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No wonder she looks so beautiful all the time. When you’ve got that kind of money, it’s easy to play the part of a playful, pampered princess, who can turn the world on with her smile.


15 posted on 04/10/2021 9:13:46 PM PDT by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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Thanks for the giggle.


16 posted on 04/10/2021 9:50:37 PM PDT by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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Beetle juice work in the Chicago way


17 posted on 04/10/2021 10:41:20 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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Now you know why she’s “NOT DOWN WITH THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS”. She doesn’t like poor folk, only power.


18 posted on 04/10/2021 11:48:36 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Chode

Well-stated pics


19 posted on 04/11/2021 5:10:28 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: PGalt

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it”, George Carlin.


20 posted on 04/11/2021 5:45:37 AM PDT by ozarker
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