Burris: “there was certainly no pay to play involved because I don’t have no money.”
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Burris faces toughest step up political ladder - Candidate points to experience in bid for governor
Chicago Tribune - Sunday, February 17, 2002
Author: Dan Mihalopoulos, Tribune staff reporter.
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“I handle the state’s money like my own,” the candidate said. “I’ve made relatively little money, but I live as comfortably as anyone. Money has never been important to me, not at all.”
It’s not clear how much Burris has made, since he refuses to release tax returns. After leaving the attorney general’s post, he became the managing partner of the Chicago law firm of Jones, Ware and Grenard, and pocketed a settlement, the size of which he refuses to disclose, when the firm dissolved in 1998.
Before Burris became attorney general, the firm he would later join had never received a state contract. But it earned more than $744,000 from the state between 1991 and 1997, records show. Burris said he was justified in steering work to a qualified minority-owned firm.
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