Cook County Clerk Regina Taylor pleads guilty to fraud count after undercover bust

A former clerk for the Cook County Recorder of Deeds has pleaded guilty to taking a $200 bribe to prepare a back-dated deed on a Chicago-area home.

Regina Taylor entered a guilty plea to one count of honest services mail fraud in a plea deal with prosecutors. The 59-year-old Chicagoan will be sentenced in April.

Prosecutors say Taylor took the bribe to add someone as a fourth owner of a property. Three other owners were dead and Taylor allegedly told the person not to tell anyone else that.

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