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Tezak arson sentencing in federal court tomorrowBy Tamara SharmanFormer Will County Coroner Robert Tezak will be sentenced Monday for his role in an arson-for-profit scheme.Tezak will be sentenced in federal court in Chicago by U.S. District Judge Wayne Andersen.The maximum penalty faced by Tezak is 20 years in prison,$750,000 in fines, a term of supervised release and any restitution ordered by the court.In October, Tezak pleaded guilty to charges he hired others to set fire to a bowling alley he owned to collect insurance money and threatened to kill his ex-lover, who is also his former daughter-in-law, if she testified against him in court.Tezak has admitted that he paid others to torch the unprofitable Galaxy Bowl in Crest Hill in August 1987 to collect about $1 million on the fire insurance policy.The fire damaged the bowling alley but did not destroy it.Due to a plea agreement, the government agreed to dismiss charges that Tezak conspired to torch a building he owned indowntown Joliet, but he admitted his guilt in the incident.The December 1987 blaze destroyed the Joliet building that housed the Will County Private Industry Council and the Will County Center for Community Concern.The plea agreement states that Tezak had the structure torched to collect insurance money and destroy records kept there that were wanted by a federal grand jury in a probe of others.Tezak, once a powerful force in Will County Republican politics, was elected to the first of three terms as coroner in 1976.He made millions of dollars when he acquired the rights to the popular UNO card game in 1972.
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Park Forest Star
Park Forest, Illinois, US
Sun, May 15, 1994
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