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Sentence to keep Tezak in prison 9 or 10 yearsBy Myra GuindonFormer Will County Coroner Robert “Bobby” Tezak was sentenced in federal court Friday on three offenses.U.S. District Court Judge Wayne Andersen sentenced the convicted arsonist to a total of 13 years in a federal penitentiary, said Dean Polales, assistant U.S. attorney, in a Friday phone interview.Tezak “received the maximum sentence according to guidelines — 46 months for obstruction of justice in connection with a threat to kill his former daughter-in-law,” Polales said. The woman, Nikki Leber, was also Tezak’s ex-lover. Tezak threatened to kill the woman if she dared testifyaganist him in court.Tezak also received nine years, to beserved following the first sentence, for his “arson and other matters,” Polales said.For conspiracy to commit arson, Tezak will serve five years on probation once he is out of prison.In October Tezak pleaded guilty to charges that he hired others to torch an unprofitable bowling alley he owned in Crest Hill to collect the insurance money. The Galaxy Bowl was damaged, but not destroyed, in a fire in August 1987.He also pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Leber, with whom he had an eight-year affair.But as part of a plea agreement the government agreed to dismiss charges that Tezak conspired to burn down a Joliet building he owned. However, Tezak ad-■ See TEZAK, Page A-4
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New Lenox Star
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Sun, Jul 31, 1994
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