Chicago Area Mayor Charged With Extortion As Feds Crack Down On Corrupt Dem Machine. After all the decades of corruption people are getting arrested. Remember crooks, income tax returns did in Al Capone.
From The Chicago Tribune:
Former Cook County commissioner and McCook Mayor Jeffrey Tobolski was charged in federal court Friday with conspiracy to commit extortion and filing a false tax return.
The two-count criminal information filed against Tobolski marked the latest domino to fall in a sprawling federal corruption investigation that has touched some of the Democratic Party’s key suburban political players — including Tobolski’s own chief of staff and fellow local mayor Louis Presta.
According to the bare-bones charges, Tobolski allegedly conspired with an unnamed McCook official to extort a victim identified only as Individual A by using “actual and threatened fear of economic harm.”
He also allegedly filed a falsified income tax return for 2018, reporting his income for that year as $214,000 when his actual income was “substantially” higher, according the the paperwork.
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Their asses forgot to "pay" others their cut. Crock county politics in full force. Messed over the machine and the machine bite back.
There are only crooks in Illinois government...Has been that way for years but somehow the feds never get around to looking into it...Too busy covering their asses.