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Customers who trusted the crooked bank to do the right thing are still out up to $312,000 each, as the latest story in the Sun-Times investigative series shows.
A federal jury has convicted two homebuilders for their roles in a decade-long, $31 million embezzlement scheme that led to the 2017 collapse of Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Bridgeport. Miroslaw Krejza, 65, of Chicago, and Marek Matczuk, 60, of Park Ridge, were found guilty of conspiring to commit embezzlement and falsify bank records through years of fraudulent real estate loans ...
Matczuk, who said he did odd jobs for Washington Federal Bank for Savings and its employees, was given the money on orders of the late bank chief John F. Gembara.
A judge sentenced a LaGrange attorney to more than 3 years in prison for bankruptcy fraud in connection with her brother's bankruptcy.
Six months after his release from federal prison, former Chicago Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson could be in hot water again after court probation officials accused him of failing to pay restitution for his tax-related conviction. Thompson, 54, the former 11th Ward alderman and scion of the Daley political dynasty, was sentenced to four months in prison in July 2022 for tax evasion and lying to ...