Anonymous ID: 91557c Nov. 29, 2018, 11 a.m. No.4075207   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>5292

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/ed-burke-fbi-federal-agents-city-hall-council/

 

Federal agents showed up unannounced at the City Hall office of Finance Committee Chairman Ed Burke, kicked everyone out and papered over the windows Thursday morning.

 

The nature of their visit was not known, but Ald. Burke (14th) has dodged dozens of federal investigations over five decades in Chicago politics.

 

Federal agents also showed up to Burke’s ward office and papered over the windows there.

 

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment. Calls to the FBI office in Chicago and the IRS criminal investigations division were not immediately returned.

 

A reporter knocked on the City Hall office door Thursday morning; the man who answered, who was not a member of Burke’s office staff, had no comment.

 

Ed Burke’s wife, Ann Burke, serves on the Illinois Supreme Court and earlier this month, voters endorsed her for another term on the court. Her swearing-in was Thursday in Chicago; a court spokesman said it was conducted in her chambers, and that she was joined by “family and colleagues,” though the statement did not specify if Ald. Burke was among the family members attending.