VIDEO: Duck-and-Dodge with Joe Berrios

July 26, 2010 by CookReformer · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Reform, Taxes, Todd Stroger 

This weekend’s Fox Chicago Sunday appearance by Cook County Board of Review Commissioner Joe Berrios was very telling.

Watch as Berrios — also the Cook County Democratic Party Chair — pooh-pooh’s questions about him being too cozy with insiders such as State Democratic Chair Mike Madigan who, by the way, is a tax appeals attorney whose law firm brings cases before Berrios.

Is Berrios employing the old “Rostenkowski Defense” (everybody’s doing it, so I should, too)?

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Tax Appeals Scandal Grows

July 30, 2009 by Tony Peraica · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Corruption, Taxes 

The plot thickens in the story of whether or not State Rep. Paul Froehlich abused the tax appeals process for political gain.

As this Fox News Chicago story shows…the investigation may go well beyond Rep. Froehlich:

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