Ex-Cook County Land Bank Authority official gets a year in prison over secret land deals – Chicago Sun-Times

The land bank has been mired in controversy since June 2019, when the FBI raided the offices of then-Ald. Carrie Austin; her chief of staff Chester Wilson owed more than $200,000 in property taxes and interest on a building he donated to the land bank, which wiped out the tax, then sold it to Wilson’s former partner for $40,000. It was  later reported that the land bank had sold two vacant lots to a drug dealer who was under federal indictment and rejected higher bidders when it sold an Oak Lawn home to the assistant of the land bank’s then-executive director.