"The League of Shadows has been a check against human corruption for thousands of years. We sacked Rome, loaded trade ships with plague rats, burned London to the ground. Every time a civilization reaches the pinnacle of its decadence, we return to restore the balance." Ra's al Ghul in Batman Begins.
From Politico:
Explosive news from Tribune’s Greg Pratt. He reports that records show that Ald. Edward Burke’s son "was under internal investigation for allegedly making inappropriate sexual comments at the sheriff’s office when Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s administration hired him" to a nearly $100,000 per year job. Story here.The son is Edward Burke Jr.
From the Tribune article:
One investigation began after a female sheriff's employee alleged that Burke [Junior] was 'consistently disrespectful of women,' talked about sex acts and would leave the office by saying, "I'm leaving, going to watch the girls on Rush Street," records show.
She also said Burke called himself "the law," claimed to have “tapes” that would "humiliate" Dart, vowed to run for sheriff and said he would fire a bunch of employees when he won, records show. A county memo included in the records dated after Burke’s resignation said the sheriff's Office of Professional Review did not get to interview him before he resigned and recommended no further action be taken in the matter.The elder Burke until recently was the chairman of the most powerful committee on Chicago's City Council and like his ward neighbor Illinois Democratic Party boss Michael Madigan, he has presumably made a fortune in the tax appeal business. Conflict of interest? He was charged in a criminal complaint late last year for extortion. Burke has been an alderman for 50 years and a Democratic ward committeeman for 51 years.
Central to the extortion case is a fundraiser Burke held for Taxwinkle, who is running for mayor of Chicago.
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