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Chicago Sun-Times
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Jon Seidel

Ed Burke once bragged about his work for Trump — now he doesn’t want jurors to know

Ald. Edward Burke (left) with Donald Trump, a presidential candidate at the time, at the City Club of Chicago in 2015. (AP)

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.”

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