Ex-assessor's office employee avoids prison after cooperating with feds in bribery probe
<p>A man who once worked for the<b> </b>Cook County assessor’s office<b> </b>has become the latest person to avoid prison after being caught up in a bribery scandal — but only after he spent eight years helping the feds and recorded hundreds of conversations, according to his lawyers.</p><p>U.S. District Judge John<b> </b>Kness<b> </b>on Thursday<b> </b>sentenced<b> </b><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2022/7/6/23197461/lavdim-deme-memisovski-amarjeet-bhachu-cook-county-assessor-property-assessments-tax-bills" target="_blank" >Lavdim<b> </b>Memisovski</a><b> </b>to 18 months<b> </b>of probation.
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<p>A man who once worked for the<b> </b>Cook County assessor’s office<b> </b>has become the latest person to avoid prison after being caught up in a bribery scandal — but only after he spent eight years helping the feds and recorded hundreds of conversations, according to his lawyers.</p><p>U.S. District Judge John<b> </b>Kness<b> </b>on Thursday<b> </b>sentenced<b> </b><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2022/7/6/23197461/lavdim-deme-memisovski-amarjeet-bhachu-cook-county-assessor-property-assessments-tax-bills" target="_blank" >Lavdim<b> </b>Memisovski</a><b> </b>to 18 months<b> </b>of probation. He did so after prosecutors<b> </b>said<b> </b>Memisovski’s<b> </b>assistance<b> </b>had been “integral”<b> </b>to securing several felony convictions<b> </b>tied to wrongdoing in the assessor’s office.</p><p>Still, the judge told Memisovski that “public corruption is … endemic in this district … It occurs because of individuals like you who hold positions of authority and abuse those positions of authority. Everybody else who didn’t have an ‘in’ had to pay their taxes.”</p><p>The conduct generally dates back to the tenure of former Cook County Assessor Joseph<b> </b>Berrios, who has not been accused by the feds of wrongdoing.</p><p>“I want to apologize to the court for everything that I did, I take full responsibility,” Memisovski said through tears Thursday.
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- <p>A man who once worked for the<b> </b>Cook County assessor’s office<b> </b>has become the latest person to avoid prison after being caught up in a bribery scandal — but only after he spent eight years helping the feds and recorded hundreds of conversations, according to his lawyers.</p><p>U.S. District Judge John<b> </b>Kness<b> </b>on Thursday<b> </b>sentenced<b> </b><a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2022/7/6/23197461/lavdim-deme-memisovski-amarjeet-bhachu-cook-county-assessor-property-assessments-tax-bills" target="_blank" >Lavdim<b> </b>Memisovski</a><b> </b>to 18 months<b> </b>of probation.
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