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On Thursday, the former tax attorney for more than a decade to the U.S President Donald Trump, Edward Burke had his Chicago office raided by federal agents. Burke is currently serving as the chairman of the City Council Committee on Finance. He also assisted Trump with his taxes for more than 12-years and fought many legal battles for the real estate mogul to reduce property taxes in the Chicago area. The U.S Federal agents reportedly arrived at the office of Burke on Thursday morning. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that agents unannounced and made everyone leave the building before placing paper over all of the windows. But, the nature of the visit wasn’t known.

Burke is a Democrat and has been the alderman of Chicago’s 14th Ward for nearly 40-years and before entering politics was a city police officer. His small law firm Klafter & Burke worked with the U.S President since 2006 to lower property taxes on the Trump’s Chicago buildings by more than $14 million. But Burke and his law firm stopped working with Trump in May 2018. Burke’s firm was in the middle of handling 5 cases in which the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago was seeking refunds for the millions of U.S dollars it paid in property taxes.

Burke also worked with Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner. His firm once handled appeals on property taxes on Chicago’s AT&T building, at 225 West Randolph Street, which was just put up for sale by Kushner Companies in October.

Burke later confirmed and downplayed the investigation.

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The former personal attorney of the president, Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Thursday of lying to U.S Congress. Cohen admitted in court that he had been involved with a Trump Tower real estate project in Russia during Trump’s presidential campaign 2016. The plea is the latest development in Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible collusion with members of the Trump campaign.