Pritzker repaid owed property taxes from toilet scheme: inspector general

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Toilets at an Oct. 2 press conference outside of the Gold Coast mansion Democrat JB Pritzker received $330,000 worth of property tax breaks after disconnecting the toilets in 2015. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]

Gov. JB Pritzker repaid — as promised — the $330,000 property tax break he got in part by disabling the toilets in a Gold Coast mansion he owns, a move the Cook County’s Independent Inspector General concluded was part of a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers.

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