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FBI agents raid ward office of Ald. Carrie Austin

Posted June 19, 2019 11:00 pm

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Alderman Carrie Austin was praising the Lord at a school event Wednesday morning, saying "today is a day truly that God has made because he made us the star of the show," when federal agents a few miles away were thrusting her center stage into Chicago's hottest criminal investigation.

While Austin was talking about a school mentoring program, alongside Mayor Lori Lightfoot at Percy Julian High School, FBI agents were raiding her ward office as part of the ongoing political corruption investigations of Chicago aldermen.

With the public raid, Austin, 70, joins the select company of veteran, powerful Chicago aldermen implicated in the investigations.

Alderman Edward M. Burke was indicted in May in a wide-ranging political corruption racketeering case

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