Illinois governor JB Pritzker won $1.4m gambling last year, tax filings reveal
illinois Governor JB Pritzker won more than $1.4 million gambling in Las Vegas last year. accordingly Federal tax returns released by his campaign team.
Pritzker is already a billionaire family net worth Widely seen as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidate, he won the $41.6 billion after playing blackjack at a Las Vegas casino while on vacation with his wife and friends. accordingly campaign spokesperson.
Governor plans to donate his earnings to charity said NBC.
Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Pritzker said: “I went on vacation with my wife and some friends. I was incredibly lucky, obviously you had to be ahead to go to a casino anywhere.”
“It was in Las Vegas, and I love playing cards… I started a charity poker match here in Chicago called the Chicago Poker Challenge, and that match… raised millions of dollars for the Holocaust museum here, and specifically to advocate for civil rights. Anyway, that’s all I can say about it. I mean, I had fun doing it. I encourage people to come to the state of Illinois and gamble in our casinos.” I do. We have some really nice places to go,” Pritzker continued.
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He added that $1.4 million was a clear figure and that “it all happened in one trip.”
“Anyone who plays cards in a casino knows…usually you play for too long and you lose what you won. I was lucky enough to have to leave before that happened,” the governor said.
Pritzker personally value It is worth approximately $3.7 billion and is the heir to the Hyatt hotel chain. After becoming governor in 2019, a position for which he received no salary, Pritzker transferred his assets to a “blind” foundation; where the beneficiary has transferred control of the assets to a trustee who manages them without the beneficiary’s knowledge.
Still, Pritzker’s tax summaries reveal the governor earned more than $10 million in adjusted gross income last year, Capital News Chicago reported.
The Democratic governor emerged as one of them Donald Trump‘s strongest critics, particularly the president, have called for Pritzker to be jailed for his opposition to the federal deployment of national troops to Chicago.
Earlier this summer, he announced he would run for a third term as governor next year, and Pritzker responded to whether he planned to run for president. in question: “I don’t know what the future holds… What I can tell you is that I am fully committed to protecting the rights of the people in the state of Illinois and making sure we protect them, especially from a tyrant who has taken over the White House.”
