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Federal agents raid office of lawyer who previously did tax work for Trump
The Hill (via MSN news) ^ | November 29, 2018 (45 mins ago) | Owen Daugherty

Posted on 11/29/2018 10:49:27 AM PST by Texas Fossil

Federal agents have reportedly raided the Chicago City Hall office of a lawyer who previously did tax work for President Trump.

The Chicago Sun Times reports that federal agents removed everyone from the office of Chicago Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke on Thursday morning, covering the floor-to-ceiling windows with brown paper.

Source says feds showed up this am, asked everyone to leave and put brown paper on the doors. pic.twitter.com/4qJBwzoKF4- Fran Spielman (@fspielman) November 29, 2018

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office declined to comment when contacted by the Sun Times. A man who answered the door of the office when a reporter knocked also declined to comment.

Burke's office did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment.

Burke worked for Trump for more than a decade doing property tax work.

Burke's law firm of Klafter & Burke has worked with Trump's companies repeatedly to reduce the property tax that Trump Tower and his other properties in Chicago have had to pay, according to the Chicago Sun Times.

Over his 12 years working for Trump, Burke was allegedly able to cut the property taxes on the downtown tower by more than $14 million.

Burke stopped working for Trump this summer, citing "irreconcilable differences" in letters filed with the Illinois State Property Tax Appeal Board.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: burke; federalagents; layer; msn; raid; seebreakingnews
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Sigh.

I've grown very weary of this. There is no apparent connection with President Trump. But the media assumes there is.

The war is not over until one side is totally defeated.

1 posted on 11/29/2018 10:49:28 AM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

When you can’t get Trump to show his tax returns, go after his people that work for him!

Never mind Lois Lerner who committed FELONIES!

F U R M!


2 posted on 11/29/2018 10:52:32 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Texas Fossil

Of course the media fails to report that the Feds wouldn’t be raiding the Alderman’s City Hall office if they were looking for Trump’s tax records. This guy is a Democrat, and has held the office of Alderman for the 14 ward in Chicago since 1969.


3 posted on 11/29/2018 10:52:36 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Texas Fossil

4 posted on 11/29/2018 10:52:41 AM PST by z3n
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To: Texas Fossil

Did they work directly for Trump the man, or Trump the corporation? I doubt Trump is directly involved with day-to-day business on all his properties.


5 posted on 11/29/2018 10:53:31 AM PST by JoSixChip (He is Batman!)
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To: Texas Fossil
They are just warming up.

Que up CWII!

6 posted on 11/29/2018 10:53:31 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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To: Texas Fossil

So much for lawyer/client privacy privilege.


7 posted on 11/29/2018 10:53:41 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Texas Fossil

They (dims and deep swamp) have been given the unlimited authority to pick apart every aspect of his existence without oversight.


8 posted on 11/29/2018 10:53:58 AM PST by umgud (Now)
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To: z3n

No limits on Dems crimes.


9 posted on 11/29/2018 10:54:28 AM PST by Cowgirl
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To: unixfox

Was Whitaker aware this was going to happen? Trump is going to have to prove that Hillary Clinton is about to be investigated to the nth degree, and will probably go to jail. See how far the Dems will take this if she is in peril.


10 posted on 11/29/2018 11:00:02 AM PST by Saltmeat
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To: Texas Fossil

I think Drudge ran out of room for anti Trump banner headlines. Anybody still want to defend Drudge as a mere “news aggregator”?


11 posted on 11/29/2018 11:00:32 AM PST by Williams (The New Democrat Slogan: Choke It Down!)
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To: Texas Fossil

The remaining honest Justice Dept. Officers need to raid mueller’s office.


12 posted on 11/29/2018 11:01:10 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: Texas Fossil

“Federal agents have reportedly raided the Chicago City Hall office of a lawyer who previously did tax work for President Trump.”

Among other things in his professional life, presumably.

“Burke worked for Trump for more than a decade doing property tax work.”

Among other things in his professional life, presumably.

“Burke’s law firm of Klafter & Burke has worked with Trump’s companies repeatedly to reduce the property tax that Trump Tower and his other properties in Chicago have had to pay, according to the Chicago Sun Times.”

Is there any entity in the U.S., apart from the small taxpayer, who has not done the same thing?

Does the Chicago Sun Times have a tax accountant on retainer? For what purpose, may I ask?


13 posted on 11/29/2018 11:01:18 AM PST by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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To: Texas Fossil

What scares me is the communists Democrats are using the law enforcement of the Government to search for a crime. America is allowing this and will destroy us totally.


14 posted on 11/29/2018 11:03:08 AM PST by Logical me
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Gee, I wonder how much "evidence" is being planted and how much is being destroyed?

Because that is exactly what is going on here...

They just may have gone to far now.

The BS they are pulling with Corsi, Michael Cohen and others in a last ditch effort is absolutly in line with this crap.

.

15 posted on 11/29/2018 11:03:45 AM PST by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Texas Fossil

I walked by Trump Towers one time. Will they come for me too?


16 posted on 11/29/2018 11:04:12 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: Texas Fossil

I got a feeling Mr. Burke is about to be charged with lying to the FBI and offered probation if he cooperates.


17 posted on 11/29/2018 11:04:32 AM PST by Terry Mross (On some threads it's best to go jst inraight up his seat. to the comments..)
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To: Texas Fossil
You got to be kidding. If this has anything to do with Trump, he needs to absolutely abolish the FBI and reorganize its functions under some other department so that absolutely every employee at least at the upper levels is fired and has to find a job that requires them to take an ethics test.
18 posted on 11/29/2018 11:08:40 AM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Texas Fossil

What does this have to do with “Russian Collusion”?


19 posted on 11/29/2018 11:09:30 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it)
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To: Westbrook

Looking for names of any Russians and Russian companies in all of the Trump real estate docs the lawyer has.


20 posted on 11/29/2018 11:12:12 AM PST by VietVet876
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