The photograph could have come straight out of a movie about old-school, Chicago-style corruption: A veteran employee of the Cook County Board of Review, thumbing through a pile of cash he had purportedly taken as a bribe to help lower someone’s property taxes.
Danilo “Danny B” Barjaktarevic told a federal judge Tuesday that the FBI investigation that led to that photograph didn’t “portray me as a person.” Rather, he said he had a “weak moment” when he took $43,000 in bribes. And, he said, “I am ashamed of myself.”
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