The owner of a Chicago-area fence installation company, along with two Cook County employees, have been charged in a bribery scheme.
Robert Mitziga, owner of Fence Masters, Inc., allegedly conspired with employees of the Cook County Assessor’s Office to lower the assessed value of his properties to lower his taxes.
He conspired with Lumni Likovski, 47, of Burbank, who was employed by the CCAO as a director of taxpayer services and Lavdim Memisovski, who was employed by the CCAO as a commercial group leader, as well.Mitziga has also been charged with bribing Clausen, Likovski, and Memisovski. Likovski has been charged with accepting a bribe as a public official.
Fence Masters and the other company involved had properties in Cook County that were being re-assessed by CCAO. The two companies appealed the re-assessed values of their properties to the CCAO.
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