Just a quickie … A financial advisor in Chicago has been charged for stealing at least $65 million:
Twelve years ago, Chicago banking tycoon Roger Weston sold his family bank and retired, at age 64, with a fortune of more than $200 million. He placed it in trust and moved to Naples, Fla.
He probably had no idea what was going to happen next.
According to federal charges filed this month by the U.S. attorney’s office in the Northern District of Illinois, Weston’s financial manager and long-standing accountant Sultan Issa allegedly used the money to go on an extraordinary 10-year crime spree, forging documents and stealing money. He may have plundered over $100 million from investors, says a civil suit.
The Westons were not named in the federal charges, but are separately suing Issa over the allegedly stolen money.
During that time, say the feds, Issa allegedly used the money to buy 25 homes from Montana to Mexico, including three condos in Trump Tower, two private planes, four motor yachts, 60 guns, jewelry, and other luxuries. Issa has been charged by federal prosecutors with criminal fraud.
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Where else would one buy condos? Birds of a feather.