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Former state Sen. Annazette Collins pleaded not guilty through her lawyer Thursday to a revised indictment filed this week charging her with an additional tax crime.
The former politician-turned-lobbyist had originally been indicted March 31 in connection with the feds’ ongoing bribery investigation revolving around ComEd and Springfield politics. That indictment charged Collins with two counts of filing a false individual income tax return, two counts of failing to file a corporate income tax return and one count of failing to file an individual income tax return.
A new indictment filed Wednesday against Collins
accuses her of an additional count of filing a false individual income tax return for the calendar year 2018. Collins falsely claimed $31,830 in total travel expenses for that year, the indictment alleges.
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Kim Foxx on election night in 2016, when she won her first term as Cook County state’s attorney. Foxx raised $30,000 in a campaign event at Burke’s house that year, and did not return it in the wake of Burke’s racketeering indictment.
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx on Thursday condemned the anti-Semitic remark allegedly made by indicted Ald. Edward Burke (14th) in a wiretapped conversation, but said she’s keeping $30,000 she raised during a 2016 campaign event at Burke’s house.
“I don’t ascribe to Alderman’s Burke’s anti-Semitic remarks or any of the behavior that he engaged in that has found himself where he is right now,” Foxx told the Sun-Times.