Federal prosecutors say a former longtime Cook County Board of Review worker should be sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison for accepting $43,000 in cash to help lower property taxes, a move that put “salt in the wound” of honest taxpayers.
But a defense attorney for Danilo “Danny B” Barjaktarevic asked U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman to sentence him to probation instead, arguing he’s already lost his job, will lose his pension, brought shame to his name and spent hours answering questions from the FBI.
