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Continued from Page A-1“The government would characterize his cooperation as poor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Dean Polales said Friday.Attorney Steven Popuch, a member of Tezak’s defense team, said he hopes U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen will grant the reduction in Tezak’s sentence. “I would hope. To call it optimism would be an overstatement,” he said.Tezak pleaded guilty to charges that he hired others in 1987 to torch an unprofitable Crest Hill bowling alley he owned in order to collect the insurance money.He also pleaded guiltv to threateningto kill a potential witness against him, who was his ex-lover as well as his former daughter-in-law.As part of a plea agreement, the government dropped charges that Tezak conspired in 1987 to torch a building he. owned in Joliet, but he admitted his guilt in that incident.Tlie resulting blaze destroyed the structure housing the federally funded Will County Private Industry Council. The fire also consumed records kept there that were wanted by a federal grand jury as part of an investigation of others.Tezak served three terms as coroner after being elected to the post in 1976. He is a former multi-millionaire that made a fortune after gaining the rights to the UNO card game.
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Park Forest Star
Park Forest, Illinois, US
Sun, Jan 29, 1995
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