Articles filed under Political Figures
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Website helps calculate how much you'll pay in Pritzker's tax planMar 12, 2019 1:00 am - How much will Gov. J.B. Pritzker's proposed graduated income tax cost or save you? State officials released a way to tally that up Tuesday with an online tax calculator...
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Trump plan postpones balanced budget despite deep spending cutsMar 11, 2019 1:00 am - President Donald Trump will propose a U.S. budget that wouldn't balance for 15 years, even assuming stronger economic growth than private forecasters expect and with dee...
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Why Trump probably won't get in trouble for campaign finance violationsMar 07, 2019 12:00 am - President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, has pleaded guilty to violating federal campaign finance laws by making a large, indirect, "in-kind" contribution ...
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'Fast Eddie' admits to tax evasionMar 07, 2019 12:00 am - Former Chicago Alderman Edward R. "Fast Eddie" Vrdolyak pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal tax evasion charge. His plea comes more than two years after the feds accuse...
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Pritzker income tax plan ranges from 4.75 to 7.95 percent; GOP cries foulMar 07, 2019 12:00 am - Gov. J.B. Pritzker pitched a new graduated income tax system Thursday that he called essential to Illinois' stability even as suburban Republicans launched a campaign of...
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Ex-Trump aide Manafort gets just under 4 years in prison for tax, bank fraudMar 07, 2019 12:00 am - ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced Thursday to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising ...
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Sanders vs. Clinton: 2016 rivalry proves hard to overcomeMar 05, 2019 6:00 am - NEW YORK (AP) - Bernie Sanders was minutes away from walking onto a Brooklyn stage last weekend to launch a second presidential campaign that he insisted would be all ab...
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Hillary Clinton rules out 2020 rematch with Donald TrumpMar 05, 2019 6:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Clinton says she won't run for president in 2020, but vows she's "not going anywhere." The former secretary of state, senator and first lady ru...
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Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb calls Mueller an 'American hero' and 'class act'Mar 05, 2019 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - Former White House lawyer Ty Cobb said in a new podcast that he considers special counsel Robert Mueller to be "an American hero" and "a class act" and does...
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Pritzker pot plan gets pushback from some suburban lawmakersMar 05, 2019 12:00 am - A suburban lawmaker is receiving bipartisan support to put the brakes on fellow Democrats' and Gov. J.B. Pritzker's push to legalize recreational marijuana in Illinois. ...