Pritzker dumps official who pushed for Trump to get $1 million refund on Chicago tower's taxes

[Suburban Warrior]

Gov. J.B. Pritzker is dumping an Illinois official who’s under investigation for trying to force a state agency to give President Donald J. Trump a refund of more than $1 million on the property taxes he paid on his Chicago skyscraper eight years ago.

Mauro Glorioso, executive director and general counsel for the Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board, will be out of his job as of Thursday as the Trump case continues to cast a cloud over a state agency that’s also grappling with a backlog of about 90,000 tax cases.

The agency’s handling of Trump’s tax appeal — filed by the Chicago law firm of Ald. Edward M. Burke (14th) — has been under investigation since November. That’s when an anonymous complaint was filed with the Illinois Office of the Executive Inspector General, saying Glorioso ordered the agency to approve the $1 million payout for Trump, rejecting a staff report that found no valid reason to support the refund on the tax bill for the Trump International Hotel & Tower’s hotel and commercial space. Trump’s appeal cited vacant storefronts along the Chicago River in seeking the tax cut.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/10/9/21509933/trump-tower-chicago-property-tax-dispute-pritzker-mauro-glorioso-illinois-property-tax-appeal-board

[Tanuki]

1. Sic transit Glorioso

[Freethinker65]

2. And Cook County raised my taxes and assessment (40% +) in a very working class suburban neighborhood

We, too, are challenging the assessment. We might get our assessment increase reduced a bit, but we have never received a refund.

[ihas2stinkyfeet]

3. tax cheato blamed the architects for 'bad sight lines' from the retail spaces.

um, they look out on a brand new riverwalk.
it's an ugly building and i cant wait till it gets foreclosed on.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Pritzker drains the swamp. It is past time.