Thursday, November 15, 2012
Mary 'Marie' Medina, 48, says she was scammed out of $191,000 by William 'Bill' Stoecker, who has been brought up on new fraud and theft charges on an unrelated case.
Mary "Marie" Medina was unsurprised when she found out William "Bill" Stoecker had been arrested on identity theft, theft and fraud charges in connection to allegedly scamming a homeowner out of money that should have gone to repairs. Medina, 48, says she, too, was a victim of Stoecker's scam—to the tune of $191,000 that she paid to his construction firm in 2006 and 2007 to remodel her Lockport home. READ: Grabill Corp. Fraudster Back in Jail on New Charges Stoecker, 54, appeared in a Bridgeview courtroom Wednesday, Nov. 14, for a brief hearing before Judge John J. Hynes. His business manager, Susan Olszak, 46, of Florida, also has been charged. The case was continued because Hynes is currently in a jury trial. The pair is scheduled to …
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Police say a woman couldn't get her story—or her name—straight when she was attempting to receive hospital care.
Police said a woman tried to use someone else’s health care benefits at Little Company of Mary Hospital and Health Care Centers. According to police reports, Dejanee Koonce, 22, of Chicago, was charged with health care benefits fraud for attempting to receive health care benefits from Little Company of Mary, 2800 W. 95th St., by providing false insurance information. Police said she provided the name of a cousin, knowing that the cousin has public aid insurance. The hospital called police because Koonce used insurance information and signed forms with a different name than she printed on the form, police said. The hospital clerk said Koonce had no form of identification and gave an excuse that she wasn't paying attention when she signed …
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
An Evergreen Park Resident wants to know: is the person asking me for donations over the phone from a legitimate organization, or is this scam?
The phone rings, you answer it. A voice on the other end asks you to donate to a charity for fallen police officers. Don't you care about the deceased officer's family? the voice says. They gave their life. Don't you want to help? Last week an Evergreen Park resident asked Patch in an email if they were being scammed over the phone, much like in this scenario. Even though the resident is on a no-call list, they said, the solicitor was still able to reach them. In this situation, said William Kresse, professor of Fraud Studies at Saint Xavier University, don't give the person on the other line any information. Chances are it's a scam. “Always be careful when you get phone calls for policemen that have been killed,” Kresse said. “[Posing as…
D. Blake
4:50 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
We used Atherton on our home rebuild and luckily we came out not "too" bad. We closed on our home June 2009 & moved in July 2009. We tried to refinance our loan in Spring 2010 at which time we were informed that we couldn't because we had a lien on our property from the framing company on our project, which we never received a notice on until after the fact. We had to hire an attorney to fight … more ›