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Ethics? Moi? Berrios says nepotism rules don't apply to him

July 5, 2012
Chicago Tribune
The Cook County Board of Ethics has confirmed that Assessor Joe Berrios is flouting county ethics rules by employing his relatives.

County ethics board to Assessor Berrios: Fire your son and sister

June 26, 2012
Chicago Sun-Times
BY LISA DONOVAN Cook County Reporter 
 


Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios s

Ethics board tells Cook County assessor to fire relatives

June 26, 2012
Chicago Tribune
Associated Press


The Cook County ethics board has ordered the county's assessor to fire two of the three relatives who work in the gove

Cook County assessor gave daughter a $10,000 pay raise

May 23, 2011
Chicago Sun-Times

By LISA DONOVAN Staff Reporter

Even as he makes cuts elsewhere, Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios gave his daughter a promotion and $10,000 raise.

And Berrios sees no need to apologize for that.

“She knows the job,” Berrios, who was elected last November, says of his daughter, Vanessa Berrios, who has worked in the assessor’s office since 1999. “We took her out of her old title and put her into a new title.”