CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A state watchdog agency has delivered a split decision in a case involving Chicago’s Trump Tower.
The Illinois Office of Inspector General investigated an allegation that Mauro Glorioso, a former Illinois Property Tax Appeal Board executive director, pressured staff to give a $1 million property tax break to Trump Tower.
The appeal board can overrule county officials’ decisions on property tax assessments.
Glorioso, a Republican attorney from Westchester, had been appointed to the job by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in early 2020 but was removed from the job that October due to the investigation.
The inspector general found the complaint to be unfounded but the Chicago Sun-Times reports it also determined that Glorioso violated state law and policy by deleting files and emails related to the tax appeal.
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