July 12, 2019 By Thomas Lifson
It is a sign of the depth of governmental corruption of our age in America that the distinctions between government and gangsterism are blurring. Now, news comes from Chicago that federal investigators who have already indicted Alderman Edward M. Burke on 14 counts of corruption have discovered that "Chicago's most powerful alderman" used a series of "burner" cell phones that he assigned a staff member to buy for him.
If you are not a viewer of police dramas, a burner phone is a cheap cell phone with an anonymous contract for pay-as-you-go cell phone usage. Burners enable drug-dealers and other criminals to evade wiretap warrants because their ownership of the cell phone number is not available to authorities. It is a gangster tactic.
Fran Spielman, Tim Novak, and Jon Seidel of the Chicago Sun-Times report:.......The ongoing federal investigation of Chicago corruption could yield some more surprises, and possibly even start to unravel the corruption of the city government, dominated absolutely by Democrats for generations..........To Read More.....
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