Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
Amateurs and scapegoats! Don’t think anything is hopey changey until the feds bust the real players that have turned this scheme into an industry.
In Crook County?
Shocking!!
“As agents of the Cook County Assessor’s Office, Basilio Clausen, Lumni Likovski, and Lavdim Memisovski accepted bribes from business owners in the form of golf outings, food and drinks.”
Basilio, Lumni, and Lavdim. Sounds like fine, upstanding multi-generational Americans. Import the Third World and all that.
“In exchange, Clausen and Likovski circumvented the regular system of random assignment of appeals to route the appeals to Memisovski, who reduced the assessed values on the properties, according to the indictment.”
Nice to see The Chicago Way ™ still works.