Rahm Emanuel Pays Property Taxes After Inquiry (Rahm "never" rec'd tax bill)

wbbm780.com ^ | 6/3/10 | Steve Miller Reporting

[Liz]

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was three months behind on his property tax payments until WBBM Newsradio 780 brought it to his attention..Rahm Emanuel and his wife accumulated a $445.56 penalty for the payment delay on their four-bedroom Ravenswood home. On March 2, when property taxes were due, Emanuel owed about $7400. The White House responded to WBBM Newsradio 780's inquiry and issued this statement, "Rahm Emanuel has owned his home in Chicago for 11 years and has always paid his obligations promptly. He never received this particular bill, but today, the moment it was brought to his attention, he paid it in-full immediately." Governor Pat Quinn, by the way, is up to date on his property taxes. And Rahm Emanuel's boss - the President of the United States? Also up to date. The treasurer's office says not quite 13.5 percent of homeowners in Cook County are delinquent on their taxes - up only slightly from previous years. SEE THE TAX BILL FROM TREASURER'S WEBSITE. Contents of this site are Copyright 2010 by WBBM.

[Jackson57]

Anyone else think Rahm is getting ready to be thrown under the bus for the job offers and is getting things in order to run for his old seat again?

[mo]

” Tax Collector “delisted” the property...”

wonder how many other national politicians have “delisted property”...or a multitude of fictitious social security numbers.(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2442166/posts)....or perhaps don’t even “need” to pay social security taxes either....hmmmm....inquiring minds would like to know...

[PapaBear3625]

I set up a yearly reminder on my Google Calendar for such things. I would think that Rahm would have an accountant keeping track of such.

[mo]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2442166/posts

[Ann Archy]

AMEn....Rahm’s house is listed as a FOUNDATION...TAX FREE....EVERYTHING can be WRITTEN OFF!!! TAX CHEATS is all they are...TAX CHEATS, just like MOST DEMOCRATS!!! Taxes are for Republicans to pay!!

[Condor51]

"Rahm Emanuel has owned his home in Chicago for 11 years and has always paid his obligations promptly. He never received this particular bill,

He got the Tax Bill alright, you can bet the rent on it.

Plus after your mortgage is paid off, EVERYONE knows when their Property Tax Bill payments are due. Be it in Cook County, DuPage County or Johnson County - which is so far South in IL it may as well be part of Ala-fricken-bama(/s).

In Cook it's March, in DuPage it's May 31st - don't know about Johnson County but that's besides the point. Those dates are like April 15th for us in Illinois (aka: Kingdom of Daley). You don't 'forget it' - period. Tax Bill or no Tax Bill in hand.

Rahm just figured he was above paying it, or he'd pay it when HE dam wanted to. And that's all that's to it.

[tsomer]

Here’s the Google satellite link, for those who want to tour the neighborhood around his 4232 N.Hermitage Residence. He’s the fourth house South of Helen Zatterburg Park, on the West side of the street.

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=4232%20N%20HERMITAGE%20AVE%20CHICAGO%2C%20IL&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

[Liz]

......wonder how many other politicians have “delisted property” to evade taxes......

This same Chicago tax assessor that finagled Rahm's taxes, once carried the home of amnesty whore Cong Luis Guiterrez (D-Ill) (a former cab driver) on the tax rolls as a "vacant lot" and argued---- after the story became public----that Guiterrez should not be penalized for a "clerical error" ....

This came after Guiterrez paid minimal taxes for years and years...... b/c Guiterrez' home was listed as a vacant lot.

[Liz]

AFTER NEWS ORGANS BROKE THE STORY THE FIRST TIME that Rahm Emanuel’s house was tax exempt, this clarification was issued to newspapers by the Chicago tax assessor:

"Rahm Emanuel’s house being tax exempt is wholly inaccurate. Rep. Emanuel’s house in on the tax rolls, and he and his wife, Ms. Rule, have paid the taxes on it. The Emanuel house sits on two lots. For tax purposes, the property is listed as 4232 N. Hermitage Ave. The PIN is 14-18-408-035-0000. As you can see, 4232 N. Hermitage came up as one of the addresses when you searched Emanuel’s block on our web site. 4228 N. Hermitage is listed as the mailing address on the tax records-----it is not at all uncommon for addresses to be merged for properties on two lots. According to the Cook County Treasurer’s web site, Emanuel and his wife paid $13,022.60 in property taxes this year."

Sincerely, Eric W. Herman, Director of Communications, Cook County Assessor's Office

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KEEP IN MIND The Chicago county assessor is a high- ranking Democrat Party operative, who would move hell and high water to protect Chi Dems----he might even get a federal no-show job for his trouble.

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Rahm has two lots and pays the freight on a single bill and gets a tax break loophole that most of us would never be allowed and now the assessor tells us to be happy that multi-millionaire and Freddie Mac swiller Rahm Emanuel pays anything.

City and county Chicago governments are run by corrupt Dem machines for years, it's hardly surprising that Emmanuel managed to pull off his "charitable organization" stunt successfully....then got a "clarification."

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What illegalities would be unearthed if "The Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust" had its official filings audited?

TELE IRS TOLL-FREE 1-800-829-0433----you may remain anonymous.

EMAIL .......OAAG.Tax@tax.USDOJ.gov

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REFERENCE The "Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust" was formed in 2002, when Rahm was first elected to Congress. The IRS has reported that tax-exempt “foundations and charities” are the locus classicus for tax evasion and money laundering. There are zillions of ways to money launder and evade taxes within a foundation. Phony line items, phantom employees on the payroll, tax-exempt foundation writing checks to another tax-exempt foundation (money laundered then kickbacked).

January 2007, USA Today reported The Rahm Emanuel and Amy Rule Charitable Trust was formed in 2002, when he was first elected. Rahm and his wife, Amy Rule, are its only donors.

The trust reported having $2,900 on hand at the end of 2005 after receiving $34,000 from Emanuel and donating more than $31,000

During the past three years, Emanuel’s charity gave nearly $25,000 to the Anshe Emet synagogue and school [a private school that the Rahm/Rule children attend], and $15,000 to the foundation run by former president Bill Clinton (kickbacks, anyone?).

Rahm's foundation also gave $14,000 to Marwen, a Chicago "charity" that provides art classes and other educational help to low-income children. Ms Rule is on Marwen’s board.

WRAPUP Rahm doesn’t pay any property taxes and he gets income tax write-offs----donating $25000 to his Synagogue. This allows his kids to attend school tuition-free and allows him to expense a lot of personal expenses. Rahm also "donates" to his Foundation and his wife apparently draws a salary from the foundation.

HERE'S HOW TO REPORT CRIMES:

TELE IRS TOLL-FREE 1-800-829-0433----you may remain anonymous.

EMAIL .......OAAG.Tax@tax.USDOJ.gov

FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you remin anonymous)

Contact Cong Darrell Issa to look into this.
CONTACT PAGE http://forms.house.gov/issa/webforms/contact.html

REFERENCE If public servants, under oath of office, are aiding and abetting, breaking laws, submitting phony documents to state agencies or if they took kickbacks, campaign contributions, etc, this might be characterized as extortion, and/or bribery, and a violation of The Hobbs Act.

ACTIONABLE CRIMES BY PUBLIC SERVANTS means any public officer or employee of the state or of any political subdivision thereof or of any governmental instrumentality within the state, or any person exercising the functions of any such public officer or employee. The term public servant includes a person who has been elected or designated to become a public servant. CRIME means a misdemeanor or a felony.

ACTIONABLE OFFENSES MIGHT INCLUDE:
(1) Encouraging the filing of false documents;
(2) Not reporting crimes against the state (aiding and abetting)
(3) Rigging official policies to benefit oneself, and/or special interests;
(4) Forcing taxpayers to underwrite crimes against the state without their knowledge or consent (constitutes the crime of second degree coercion of taxpayers, and should be prosecuted at once).

SOURCE October 1997 Criminal Resource Manual 2403 http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/ eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/

[Liz]

Thanks for the link.

[Liz]

Yeah (/snix).......but he won't go until his has enough to live like the Sultan of Brunei.

These thieves have their filthy hands in the US Treasury......the Ovomitons lied and lied about the $700 Billion TARP bailout----the actual bailout figure was $14 Trillion.

At least half a dozen Ovomoitons are going to walk away from “ Public Service “ living like the Sultan of Brunei......and we can name them all without even breaking a sweat.

HOW DID GANGSTER GOVERNMENT SCAM $14 TRILLION? HERE'S HOW (the Madoff MO): Creating a labyrinth of interrelated international funds, institutions and financial entities of almost unparalleled complexity and breadth......with assets and businesses in multiple places overseas that hid thievery, money launderering, and tax evasion.

[Arrowhead1952]

Remember, property tax bills come at different times each year. If no one was checking the mail, he had an excuse. < /sarc>

[stephenjohnbanker]

” The buck never got here”....

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Yeah, I, the guy who never maintains a credit card balance and never forgets to get the full payment in on time, totally forgot to pay my April property tax bill. Not because I did not get a bill, but because there was a lot of other stuff going on. I was renovating my house and my bookkeeping sort of went on hiatus. When I got the “late notice” I couldn’t remember if I had paid or not. I hadn’t. I paid it the next business day — with a 10% fine.

[allmost]

It would be nice if the person was a simple citizen.

[chainsaw]

don’t know what the big deal is about Rahm not being a resident of the city for a year. His boss in Washington is not even a citizen of the US.