Tax Probe Shadows Illinois Governor as Term Gets Underway
- Federal investigators said to examine Pritzker’s tax appeal
- Workers asked to remove toilets so home deemed uninhabitable
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Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law are under federal criminal investigation for a property tax appeal that came up during Pritzker’s 2018 campaign, Chicago public radio station WBEZ reports, citing an unidentified law-enforcement source.
There are no signs that criminal charges are imminent, the station reported. The probe is related to the billionaire Democrat’s pursuit of a property tax break on a 126-year-old mansion he and his wife, M.K. Pritzker, bought next to their Chicago home.