Monday, April 26, 2010

1997: ED BURKE'S TWO WORLDS FACE A COLLISION COURSE

Crain's Chicago Business reports:
The thin line separating the public duties and private business opportunities of Chicago Alderman Edward M. Burke is becoming blurred.

A review of the powerful Finance Committee chairman's small but lucrative law firm, Klafter & Burke, has found that:

- Mr. Burke is co-counsel on a federal case with Jenner & Block-the same Chicago law firm that's receiving millions of dollars from the Finance Committee for representing aldermen in a ward-remap dispute.

- The 14th Ward alderman has helped line up millions of dollars in public subsidies to companies that later hired his firm for property tax appeals. While not illegal under the few ethics rules that guide the activities of council members, the maneuvers "create all sorts of innuendos and appearances of impropriety," observes 49th Ward Alderman Joseph Moore. "It looks bad."

- Mr. Burke has a convicted felon on his firm's payroll: Stephen T. Gorny, who was found guilty of accepting bribes in 1983 while working for the Cook County Board of (Tax) Appeals.

Another associate of Mr. Burke's, Joseph Martinez, recently left the firm after pleading guilty to federal ghost-payroll charges.

Monday, April 12, 2010

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When Corruption Was King

Robert Cooley

Anne Burke's Legal Work for Reputed Mob Hitman and Jewel Thief Jerome J. Scalise

891 F.2d 640

Chicago Democrats and The Chicago Mob

Newsalert

Aldermen praise Burke for his 40 years in office

The Chicago Sun-Times

Alderman Burke brings out the dead

The Chicago Reader

The Real Mayor of Chicago

New Geography

Burke tried to cut Rezko’s taxes

The Chicago Sun-Times

Alderman Edward Burke, Part 2: Top Machine Boss of Obama's Chicago-Style Politics

Big Government

Alderman Edward Burke: Top Machine Boss of Obama's Chicago-Part 1

Big Government

How to Contact the ARDC

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One Prudential Plaza
130 East Randolph Drive
Suite 1500
Chicago, IL 60601-6219
(312) 565-2600 or, within
Illinois, (800) 826-8625
Fax (312) 565-2320
One North Old Capitol Plaza
Suite 333
Springfield, IL 62701-1625
(217) 522-6838 or, within
Illinois, (800) 252-8048
Fax (217) 522-2417

ARDC offices are open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with the exception of Commission Holidays.