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Ex-Illinois judge gets year in prison for mortgage fraud
Source: Associated Press
Updated 5:48 pm CST, Thursday, December 20, 2018
CHICAGO (AP) — A former Illinois judge convicted of mortgage fraud has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
Former Cook County Circuit Judge Jessica O'Brien sobbed loudly in court Thursday before U.S. District Judge Thomas Durkin handed down the sentence.
O'Brien was convicted of fraudulently obtaining mortgages for Chicago investment properties and illegally pocketing more than $300,000 more than a decade before she became a judge in 2012. She resigned from the bench in September.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Ex-Illinois-judge-gets-year-in-prison-for-13482265.php