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Former Aldo.Edward Burke, whose federal racketeering trial begins next week, has transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars in “consulting” fees from campaign funds he controls to one of his co-defendants in recent years., Campaign records will be displayed.
Lawyers for former City Councilman Peter Andrews Jr., a longtime figure in the 14th Ward Democratic Party organization, said Burke's political funds were used to pay for Andrews' legal fees.
State law allows campaign funds to pay for litigation costs, but campaign finance experts told the Tribune that an arrangement in which funds are transferred to another co-defendant is unusual. It is used as “consulting” and then used for legal fees.
Read the full article by Ray Long, Jason Meisner and Megan Crepeau in the Tribune.
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