What's going on with Ald. Burke?

I wanted to cover the events of this week as I saw this on twitter from Carol Marin

Confirmed! FBI re-raided Alderman Ed Burke’s office in City Hall this afternoon!

— Carol Marin (@CarolMarin) December 14, 2018

If you want to know what's up here's an article we still don't know why the feds are interested in the long-time chairman of the city council's finance committee.

Federal agents returned to the City Hall offices of Ald. Ed Burke on Thursday, two weeks after they carried out unprecedented raids on the longtime alderman’s downtown and ward offices, sources said.

Federal investigators were looking for information they didn’t find during the first raid, sources said. The nature of the information sought was unknown.

On Nov. 29, federal investigators descended on Burke’s ward and City Hall offices and covered the windows with brown butcher paper. At City Hall, investigators spent at least five hours inside and left with boxes of records and computers.
They also showed up at the home of political operative Peter Andrews Jr., the longtime head of Burke’s ward organization. They seized Burke’s cellphone.

Sources at the time told the Sun-Times that the initial raid was not triggered by Burke’s administration of the city’s $100 million workers compensation program, nor was it tied to Burke’s property tax appeals work for the Trump Tower.

Speaking of which there were moves to take away the administration of worker's comp away from Burke's finance committee.

A plan introduced before the City Council on Wednesday would strip Ald. Edward Burke of his control of the city workers’ compensation system, nearly two weeks after federal agents raided his offices.

The ordinance sponsored by Ald. John Arena and other progressive aldermen would place the $100 million-per-year program under the control of the corporation counsel, who is appointed by the mayor. The corporation counsel would have the power to designate people to oversee the fund and to approve payment vouchers.

If you want to watch a video talking about this from CBS 2 [VIDEO]

 

What's this? An allegation against Ald. Burke? He's using his political muscle with regards to the dealings of a city department?

Former Chicago Aviation Commissioner Ginger Evans is laying out a bill of particulars against Ald. Edward Burke (14th), alleging that he worked repeatedly behind the scenes to inappropriately pressure her and her staff on airport business.

In a memo to the Sun-Times, Evans, who resigned earlier this year, gave five examples of Burke or his staff allegedly interfering or overstepping.

 Well, time will tell what the feds are looking into with the powerful Alderman.