Rockford, IL-(ENEWSPF)- An Illinois attorney whose follow involved individual bankruptcy law has been uncovered guilty of individual bankruptcy fraud fees subsequent a two-week jury trial in federal court in Rockford.
KEVIN O. JOHNSON, also acknowledged as “K.O. Johnson,” 55, of Sycamore, Ill., was convicted Friday on four counts of bankruptcy fraud, one count of making a wrong entry in a document in a personal bankruptcy continuing, 1 depend of withholding data from the Individual bankruptcy Trustee, and a person rely of concealment of residence consisting of account receivables belonging to the personal bankruptcy estate. The expenses linked to Johnson’s Chapter 7 personal bankruptcy continuing initiated on Dec. 31, 2011.
Sentencing is established for Nov. 22, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. Each and every charge carries a greatest sentence of five years in federal jail and a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the gross get or gross decline resulting from the offense, whichever is greater. The real sentence will be identified by the U.S. District Court docket, guided by the U.S. sentencing tips.
The responsible verdict was introduced by John R. Lausch, Jr., United States Lawyer for the Northern District of Illinois and Emmerson Buie, Jr., Exclusive Agent-in-Demand of the Chicago Subject Office environment of the FBI. The governing administration is represented by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Matthew Schneider, Michael Appreciate, and Michael Beckman.
This is a launch from the United States Section of Justice.
About the Northern District of Illinois
Trials of corrupt previous governors of Illinois, Chicago officers who rigged city employing, folks who supported foreign terrorism, global drug smugglers, bosses of Chicago’s violent drug-trafficking avenue gangs, corporate executives who cheated public shareholders, and organized criminal offense bosses who were dependable for notorious murders ― these are amid the recent, profitable prosecutions that distinguish the United States Attorney’s Place of work for the Northern District of Illinois.
Though earning a status constructed about decades for battling organized crime and aggressively prosecuting general public corruption, the federal prosecutor’s place of work in Chicago carries on to uphold that custom, even as its leading priorities now also involve anti-terrorism, violent crime associated with narcotics and road gangs, health care fraud and cybercrime. And intensive attempts are devoted to delivering aid and restitution to victims of crime.