Richard Lewandowski, the President of Breaker Press, printer of and mail house for the so-called Illinois Integrity Fund’s scurrilous hit pieces against County Clerk candidate Joe Tirio and various GOP County Board members has been charged with income tax evasion,

Lewandowski, who was facing jail time two years ago in McHenry County for contempt of court, identified McHenry County Board Chairman Jack Franks as being involved with the Illinois Integrity Fund pieces.

Now, the Chicago Tribune reports that Lewandowski faces a year in prison for “failing to file an income tax return in 2018.”

It appears that the printer intends to plead guilty.

He has served as a Worth Township Trustee Trustee since 2013 and is a close ally of former Worth Township Supervisor and State Rep. John O’Sullivan, who is under indictment for red light camera hanky-panky.

The article explains the printer’s involvement in McHenry County:

Lewandowski, meanwhile, was at the center of another political controversy two years ago after allegedly defamatory flyers printed by Breaker Press were released attacking McHenry County Clerk Joe Tirio during the March 2018 primary.

The flyers, one with a digitally altered image of Tirio wearing a burglar’s mask, were circulated to thousands of McHenry County addresses. The attack ads called Tirio, who ultimately won the election, a “crook” and accused him of stealing from a private slush fund, hiring “cronies” and acquainting himself with an alleged child predator and racists. Each referred to Tirio as “Crooked Joe.”

Tirio later sued. In December 2018, after a judge held him in contempt of court and was prepared to jail him, Lewandowski named Chicago Democratic political operatives Michael Noonan and Sean Tenner as those behind the mailings.