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Tax Fraud, Funeral Scandal, and Tornado Surge | Chicago News
A Cook County lobbyist, Armando Saleh, pulled off a brazen scam by faking his age with a forged passport to snag over $80,000 in senior property tax breaks meant for homeowners over 65—despite being just 56. Three assessors approved the fraud for decades, raising alarms about systemic oversight. Meanwhile, two sisters are reeling after receiving ashes they suspect don’t belong to their mother, as a shuttered funeral home was found storing 56 improperly handled bodies—with no way to verify cremated remains. And on the weather front, Illinois has seen more than 200 tornadoes this year, far…
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