Cook County employee pleads guilty to accepting cash bribes in exchange for lower property tax assessments

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The defendant accepted about $43,000 in bribes from an FBI informant, authorities said.

The details of a bribery case that came to light more than a year ago and spurred a costly internal investigation has finally been made public: Danilo Barjaktarevic, a deputy at the Cook County Board of Review, pleaded guilty Friday to a bribery charge and faces up to 2 ½ years in prison.

Barjaktarevic updated CS-1 on the appeals process during that first cash drop and then again via email in May, detailing “whether and the extent to which a property’s assessment had been lowered,” according to the agreement.The two met again on July 1, where Barjaktarevic received the second payment of $22,000, authorities said in the agreement.

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