Since Berrios took over as assessor in December 2010, the unabashedly old-school politician who's an ally of Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan has had ethics run-ins. The Board of Ethics fined him $10,000 for violating nepotism rules after the assessor hired his sister and son to jobs in his office paying nearly $182,000. A judge threw out that initial fine, and the County Board moved to change nepotism rules afterward.