Gov. J.B. Pritzker, his wife and his brother-in-law are the subjects of a federal probe into his property tax appeals on a Chicago mansion after having the toilets removed, according to published reports.
WBEZ-FM in Chicago reports federal prosecutors are looking into Pritzker and his family over property tax appeals filed on a mansion on Chicago’s Gold Coast.
A Cook County inspector general’s report, first published by the Chicago Sun-Times, later found MK Pritzker directed workers to remove all toilets from the mansion in order to have it declared “uninhabitable,” which gave the Pritzkers a huge property tax break. The report also found that the governor’s brother-in-law, Thomas J. Muenster, made “false representations” on tax appeal documents.
