Undercover IRS sting targets a very stupid blabber-mouth retired Chicago police officer's role in North Side bar & tax evasion

When a pair of undercover IRS agents posed as potential buyers for a North Side bar last fall, they claim its longtime owner spilled the secret to his success.

Bottom line: He learned everything he needed to know about business working for the Chicago Police Department.

“I was police for 32 years,” he allegedly told them. “I worked in a subterfuge unit and, in a subterfuge unit, I worked undercover and I worked in organized crime, so you saw how organized crime hid their ownership in certain businesses. So, I structured mine the same way. I structured and structuring it the same way, it’s worked out.”

The agents secretly recorded audio and video of the retired officer as he boasted about the bar he allegedly owned for 27 years, according to court records obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times. They say he revealed differing handwritten ledgers for his cash-only business — raising suspicions that he substantially underreported the bar’s success.

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