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Ex-coroner to stay put until next court hearingFormer Will County Coroner Robert Tezak remained in jail this week while his latest court appearance was postponed.Assistant U.S. Attorney Dean Polales said a status hearing set for Tuesday was postponed and a new date had not been established as of early Wednesday.Tezak was indicted last year on charges of he planned fires in 1987 that destroyed Crest Hill’s Galaxy Bowl and the Will County Private Industry Council, 225-227 N. Chciago St. in Joliet.The Republican powerhouse was jailed in the Metropolitan Correction Center in Chicago Sept. 3 after he allegedly threatened to kill his former 25-year-old daughter-in-law, who also was his lover, if she testified against him.Tezak allegedly sent a messageto Nikki Leber, his son Mark’s ex-wife, that said if she testified against him during an upcoming court appearance he would “blow' her.......brains out.Although a trial date is set for Oct. 25, it is unclear as to whether postponing the status hearing will affect that date.Requests by Tezak’s attorney, former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb, have been denied by U.S. District Judge Wayne Anderson throughout the latest court proceedings.On Sept. 29, he was denied bond by Judge Anderson after Tezak admitted he has a cocaine problem. Leber told authorities when she informed them of the alleged threats against her life that she shared cocaine with Tezak sometime after his 1992 arson indictment.
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Homewood, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 07, 1993
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