After years of delay, Ald. Edward Burke finally has a trial date in his blockbuster federal racketeering case.
on 14 counts including racketeering, federal program bribery, attempted extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion and using interstate commerce to facilitate an unlawful activity.The 59-page indictment outlined a series of schemes in which Burke allegedly tried to muscle developers into hiring his law firm, Klafter & Burke, to appeal their property taxes.
The indictment also accused developer Charles Cui of hiring Burke’s law firm in exchange for the alderman’s help with a sign permit and financing deal for a project in the Portage Park neighborhood.Ald. Edward Burke walks the floor during a Chicago City Council meeting at City Hall on June 22, 2022. They accused prosecutors of directing then-Ald. Daniel Solis, who was secretly cooperating in the investigation, to have “scripted interactions” with Burke and to lie to curry favor with the government. At the time, Solis himself had been recorded “committing a number of different crimes,” the motion stated.
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