Cook County prosecutors intend to pursue a criminal contempt case against a former Cook County judge who has been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly man, an assistant state’s attorney told a judge.
Cook County prosecutors intend to pursue a criminal contempt case against a former Cook County judge who has been in accused in civil filings and an attorney discipline complaint of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly man, an assistant state’s attorney told a judge Thursday morning.
Attorneys for Wilkerson, a Tuskegee airman who died in February, in May filed a petition seeking to hold Martin in criminal contempt of court orders that mandated that she participate in the case filed against her and not move any more of Wilkerson’s find. At Thursday’s hearing, Assistant State’s Attorney Jeremy Bergstrom told Demacopoulos the office intends to prosecute Martin on the criminal contempt matter, which could come with criminal penalties.
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