Thread by @Monaheart1229

And THIS happened today...while we weren't looking.. This is NOT small, & it's certainly very telling.
#ThursdayThoughts
newsweek.com/donald-trump-t…

2/"President Donald Trump’s former tax attorney for over a decade, Edward Burke, had his Chicago office raided by federal agents on Thursday. Burke, currently serving as the chairman of the City Council Committee on Finance, assisted Trump with his taxes for 12 years and fought

3/" many legal battles for the real estate mogul to reduce property taxes in the Chicago area. Federal agents reportedly arrived at Burke’s office on Thursday morning unannounced and made everyone leave the building before placing paper over all of the windows, according to the

4/"Chicago Sun-Times. The nature of the visit was not known. Burke, a Democrat, has been the alderman of Chicago’s 14th Ward for nearly 40 years and before entering politics was a city police officer. His small law firm Klafter & Burke worked with the president since 2006 to

5/"lower property taxes on the Trump’s Chicago buildings by more than $14 million. But Burke and his law firm split with Trump this past May, citing “irreconcilable differences.” Burke’s firm was in the middle of handling five cases in which the Trump International Hotel & Tower

6/"Chicago was seeking refunds for the millions of dollars it paid in property taxes. But since the split, another law firm has stepped in and picked up the cases. Burke also worked with Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. His firm once handled appeals on

7/"property taxes on Chicago’s AT&T building, at 225 West Randolph Street, which was just put up for sale by Kushner Companies in October..."
~Alexandra Hutzler, Newsweek, 11/29/18