Troutman pleaded guilty last week to shaking down developers in her 20th Ward on the South Side. She was voted out of office last year.

Donnell “Scandalous” Jehan, a Black Disciples “king,” was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives until April when he surrendered. He faces trial on drug charges.

When the FBI searched Troutman’s home and office last year, they found photos of her with Jehan. He previously was spotted driving her SUV. And Chicago Police envelopes addressed to her were found in his home, sources said.

But Troutman told reporters she only knew Jehan as a businessman. And authorities would not comment at the time.

Now prosecutors are officially saying Troutman and Jehan were a couple. And prosecutors say she and Jehan were partners in a shady deal involving a South Side building slated for demolition.

The new allegations were detailed in court papers filed Monday in the ongoing corruption case against a Troutman staffer, Steven Boone.

In 2003, Boone allegedly approached developer Andy Roman about buying a building at 6417 S. Maryland. Roman was to acquire the building for about $60,000 and quickly sell it to Troutman and Jehan, prosecutors said.

Troutman wrote a letter to the city to put a demolition order on hold.

But the deal changed in 2005 when Roman, who bought the building, sold it to another developer for $120,000. He agreed to kick back $20,000 to Troutman and her “partner” to keep doing business in the ward, prosecutors said.

Last week, Troutman’s attorney Sam Adam Jr. denied her guilty plea was linked to Jehan’s arrest. But the new filing indicates Jehan, upon surrendering to authorities, sat down with the government to talk about his involvement with her.

Monday’s court filing also alleges that the Rev. Gregory Hall, another Troutman staffer, told a developer in 2004 that he needed to make a $1,500 political contribution to the alderman to get her to act on the developer’s request to rezone a building in her ward. The developer never made a donation and the zoning request was never approved, prosecutors said.

– Sun-Times