CHICAGO — The proprietor of a Chicago space building firm has been charged with one depend of conspiracy to bribe a public official, and two counts of utilizing a facility in interstate commerce (a mobile phone) in an effort to facilitate the acts of bribery.
As famous throughout the data, from roughly 2016 to June 2019, ALEX NITCHOFF, 56, of Lemont, is alleged to have conspired with different people each recognized and unknown to bribe Lavdim Memisovski, an worker of the Prepare dinner County Assessor’s Workplace who carried out the perform of Industrial Group Chief. As a business group chief, Memisovski assessed property values for Prepare dinner County business properties and reviewed property tax appeals for business properties. Nitchoff, together with different people, offered Memisovski with residence enchancment supplies, residence enchancment companies, contracts for electrical work, jewellery, meals, sporting occasions tickets, and different gadgets of worth, aspiring to affect Memisovski in connection together with his work as a Industrial Group Chief. Memisovski, in return, ensured that appeals of property assessments associated to Nitchoff and his enterprise associates have been routed to himself in order that he may prolong deadlines for the submitting of appeals and scale back assessed property values.
The data is introduced by Morris Pasqual, Performing United States Legal professional for the Northern District of Illinois and Robert W. Wheeler, Jr., Particular Agent-in-Cost of the Chicago Workplace of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The federal government is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Vikas Didwania and Thomas P. Peabody.
The general public is reminded that an data comprises solely a cost and isn’t proof of guilt. The defendant is presumed harmless and is entitled to a good trial at which the federal government has the burden of proving guilt past an affordable doubt. The cost of bribery carries a doable sentence of as much as 5 years in federal jail, and every cost of utilizing a facility of interstate commerce carries a doable sentence of as much as 5 years in federal jail. If convicted, the Court docket should impose an affordable sentence beneath federal statutes and the advisory U.S. Sentencing Pointers.