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  • Game of Thrones? Watchdog Sees "Scheme to Defraud" in Pritzker Toilet Tax Break

    10/01/2018 6:13:06 PM PDT · by PBRCat · 7 replies
    The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | Ocotober 1, 2018 | Tina Sfondeles
    Cook County’s chief watchdog has concluded that more than $330,000 in property tax breaks and refunds that Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker received on one of his Gold Coast mansions — in part by removing toilets — constituted a “scheme to defraud.” Cook County Inspector General Patrick Blanchard also recommends that Cook County should try to recover the money from the billionaire. […] Blanchard writes in the report that the Cook County Assessor’s office was “the victim of sworn affidavits containing false representations.” […] “The use of these affidavits was part of a scheme for obtaining money by means of...