
Former Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke once touted his work for Donald Trump’s companies by handing out copies of a 2016 Chicago Sun-Times report that Burke’s firm had saved Trump and investors $11.7 million in property taxes on a luxury downtown hotel.
But now Burke wants any mention of his work on Trump International Hotel & Tower to be barred from Burke’s upcoming corruption trial, arguing the former president is under indictment himself and “despised by a significant percentage of the population.”