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APC News ServiceFormer Will County Coroner Robert Tezak was sentenced Friday to three years in state prison for arranging a December 1987 fire that hindered a federal inquiry into alleged political corruption in the county.Circuit Court Associate Judge Edwin Grabiec ordered the sentence to be served after completion of a 12-year fed eral prison term that Tezak, 48, is serving in Arizona. That sentence stems from his 1993 conviction for arranging an August 1987 fire at a Crest Hill bowling alley he owned in an arson-for-profit scheme.Tezak, who was Will County’s most powerful political figure while serving as coroner from 1976 to 1988, could have received up to seven years of additional imprisonment.A jury in Bloomington convicted Tezak on May 16 of conspiring to destroy a Joliet building he owned that housed the Will County Private Industry Council, a federally funded jobs training agency. The trial was moved from Will County because of the large amount of pretrial publicity.As part of an investigation into Will County political corruption, federal agents at the time of the fire were prob-■ See TEZAK, Page A-4 j
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Sun, Jul 07, 1996
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