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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

Feds dropped in on Burger King owner the same day they raided Ed Burke’s aldermanic offices

Flanked by attorneys, former Ald. Edward Burke (14th) walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

While Chicago was trying to make sense of the FBI’s raid on the offices of the city’s most powerful and longest-serving City Council member, it turns out the feds were also knocking on the door of a businessman down south in Texas.

Shoukat Dhanani testified Wednesday that four FBI agents came to his home around 8 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2018. They told him he wasn’t in any trouble. And they said they were investigating then-Chicago Ald. Edward M. Burke.

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