Lyons Mayor Chris Getty was investigated but not charged in a federal corruption investigation that swept through Chicago and numerous suburbs in recent years. Now he faces new trouble: a federal lien demanding he cough up more than $150,000 in unpaid income taxes.

Getty says the tax demand from the Internal Revenue Service has nothing to do with the criminal probe — which he insists is over as it pertains to him, with no wrongdoing found — but rather his divorce case.

“The divorce triggered the tax liability,” Getty said. “I had to sell an asset,” which he declined to identify but said it “created a tax burden on myself.”

“It was all personal issues.”

The lien, filed with the Cook County clerk’s office in August, covers the 2023 tax year and totals $156,961.91, records show.

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