Just another day here in Chicago! This accountant apparently spent the $400k on his credit card bills and the rest was spent by personal check written to a local hobby shop for his train collection. There may be a big toy train auction coming up courtesy of the Cook County Sheriff!!!
Stay tuned!
As reported in the Chicago Tribune 2/28/17:
A Park Ridge accountant was sentenced to six months in prison Tuesday for his role in defrauding the Chicago Cubs out of revenue owed by a Wrigley Field rooftop club as well as a separate scheme to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly client fighting cancer.
In handing down the sentence, U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin told Joseph Gurdak that it was the embezzlement of nearly $400,000 from his longtime client, Christine Shaw, that earned him prison time, not his role in the high-profile rooftop scam.
Gurdak was not accused of profiting in the scheme and cooperated with a grand jury investigation. But before he was charged, Shaw came forward with information that Gurdak, who had served as her personal accountant for more than 15 years, had been stealing money from her checking account, court records show.
Investigators looked into Shaw's claims and found that between 2011 and 2013, Gurdak had used the stolen funds to pay his own credit card bills as well as cut checks to a hobby store where he purchased toy trains for his collection, prosecutors said in a recent court filing.
