South Elgin Banker in Emerald Casino Case Indicted

A banker whose involvement in the now-scuttled Emerald riverboat gambling casino plan was charged Wednesday with siphoning more than $497,000 out of a customer's credit line and failing to report the money on his tax returns. Jeffrey Suspenzi, 34, of South Elgin, a former vice president at Parkway Bank and Trust Co. in Harwood Heights, was accused in the three-count federal indictment of forging the unnamed customer's signature on 18 cashier's checks against the $1. 5 million credit line.

He later cashed them under his own signature, according to the indictment. Prosecutors said he got the money in 18 withdrawals totaling $497,717. 66 and failed to report it as income for 2000 and 2001.

June 2, 2006
Posted By Skip Davis
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