Posted2/3/2021 1:00 AM A former Wheeling man and three others with Northwest suburban ties face federal fraud charges alleging they were part of a scheme to unlawfully obtain at least $3 million in mortgage loans, the U.S. attorney's office announced Tuesday. Andrzej Lajewski, who owned Des Plaines-based Highland Consulting Corp., and Chicago-based Quality Management and Remodeling Inc., schemed with two mortgage professionals and the owner of a remodeling company to perpetrate the fraud, an indictment returned Jan. 28 alleges.
According to federal prosecutors, Lajewski, 53, fraudulently received millions in mortgage loans by making and causing to be made false representations to financial institutions about buyers' qualifications for loans.