K-12 Tax & $pending Climate: Ex-Chicago Assessor’s Office employee who wired up for feds gets probation
When Cook County assessor’s office supervisor Ladvim Memisovski was approached by the FBI more than eight years ago about accepting benefits in exchange for lowered property assessments, he not only agreed to flip, he wore a hidden wire on a target of the investigation later that same day.
Over the next several years, Memisovski operated undercover, secretly recording nearly 100 in-person meetings with associates — including some who claimed to have ties to organized crime — and over 400 phone calls, his lawyers said in a recent court filing. His cooperation helped the feds charge former colleagues in the assessor’s office, crooked developers, and even his own cousin.
Memisovski also cooperated against “various individuals who have not yet been charged with criminal offenses,” his lawyers say.
On Thursday, Memisovski saw the benefit of his eight years of assistance to the government, as a federal judge sentenced him to a year and a half of probation.
Memisovski, 47, of Summit, who joined the assessor’s office in 2005 and was earning about $127,000 a year as commercial group leader, pleaded guilty in 2022 to one count of bribery conspiracy with accepting home improvement services, jewelry, meals, and sporting event tickets from the owner and an employee of Oakk Construction.
