{"id":414551,"date":"2010-03-10T20:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310f8a2f01970c"},"modified":"2010-03-10T20:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T01:40:39","slug":"senate-candidate-kirk-shows-his-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/414551","title":{"rendered":"Senate candidate Kirk shows his tax returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by John Chase<\/em> at 7:35 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senate nominee Mark Kirk and his now ex-wife made more than $232,000 in 2008 \u2013 the most since he became\u00a0a congressman, according to ten years worth of tax returns his campaign made available Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the money came from Kirk\u2019s $169,300 congressional salary, but more than $62,000 came from wages earned by his\u00a0ex-wife, Kimberly Vertolli, who is an attorney, according to Kirk\u2019s campaign. They filed their 2008 return jointly. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>They also reported rental real estate income of more than $3,900 for property they rented out in Alexandria, Va., the return shows. A Kirk spokesman said the property belonged to Vertolli. <\/p>\n<p>Kirk, who was elected in 2000 to represent the North Shore in Congress, released his taxes Wednesday. Democratic nominee Alexi Giannoulias, the state\u2019s treasurer, released his tax returns last year during his primary race. Giannoulias\u2019 reports showed he made millions of dollars from his family\u2019s bank, Broadway Bank, much of it from payouts related to his father\u2019s 2006 death.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk and his ex-wife paid $38,160 in taxes during 2008 and had to pay nearly $5,300 more when they filed. They also gave more than $2,600 to charity, the report shows, including to Goodwill, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces and the Kenilworth Union Church.<\/p>\n<p>The couple also had investments with Charles Schwab, Fidelity Contrafund, MetLife and Newfield Bancorp, which reports show earned them about $2,000 a year dating back to 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s joint income rose steadily over the years, the reports show, from $124,000 in 2001 when he first entered Congress to $201,800 in 2007, when the couple saw a $50,000 increase due mostly to Vertolli increasing her legal business, his campaign said.<br \/><\/br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by John Chase at 7:35 p.m. Republican Senate nominee Mark Kirk and his now ex-wife made more than $232,000 in 2008 \u2013 the most since he became\u00a0a congressman, according to ten years worth of tax returns his campaign made available Wednesday. Most of the money came from Kirk\u2019s $169,300 congressional salary, but more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}