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Lightfoot demands that Burke step down as finance committee chairman

DECEMBER 5, 2018 | by Fran Spielman | CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

“… Nor would he comment on Lightfoot’s demand that the Finance Committee be stripped of control over Chicago’s $100 million-a-year worker’s compensation program. … 'There’s too much money that flows through that system that is completely opaque. We have no idea how those monies are spent, who the people are who are making the decisions. That’s got to end,' Lightfoot said. … A former federal prosecutor, Lightfoot noted that, in order to justify that raid less than three months before the Feb. 26 election, a judge had to be convinced that a crime had been committed and that evidence of that crime would be located at either or both of Burke’s offices.”

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