Chicago’s Godfather Alderman Ed Burke pleaded “not guilty” to federal charges of bribery and racketeering—a law first devised decades ago to combat mobsters and organized crime—following a May 30 indictment and a federal raid of his offices. So, did the city’s longest-serving alderman and chair of the City Council’s Committee on Finance land the, uh…”the tuna?” All was revealed in a 59-page federal indictment “filled with detailed allegations of classic Chicago graft.”
After Burke won his bid for re-election in February 2019 with 54 percent of the vote, Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on him to resign. An offer he apparently has refused.
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