Democratic governor candidate J.B. Pritzker will repay the Cook County treasurer more than $330,000 worth of property-tax breaks and tax refunds that the county’s inspector general contended were obtained as a result of a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers, his campaign said Tuesday.
Blanchard found that Pritzker’s wife, M.K. Pritzker, asked a contractor in 2015 to remove the mansion’s five toilets to make the home uninhabitable so it could be reassessed at a lower value. M.K. Pritzker’s brother and her personal assistant later made “false representations” in sworn affidavits to the assessor about the mansion’s condition and when the toilets were removed, Blanchard found.
