{"id":323078,"date":"2010-02-15T16:12:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=18902"},"modified":"2010-02-15T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T21:12:09","slug":"new-home-for-betty-loren-maltese-at-halfway-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323078","title":{"rendered":"New home for Betty Loren-Maltese at halfway house"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"CHICAGO — Betty Loren-Maltese was expected Monday to arrive at a Salvation Army halfway house on South Ashland Avenue.<\/p>\n

She will be there to finish out the rest of her 120-day probation\u00a0after spending almost seven years behind bars.<\/p>\n

Loren-Maltese and five co-defendants \u2013 including purported mobsters \u2013 were convicted of racketeering in 2002 for using a bogus insurance company to bilk taxpayers out of more than $10 million from 1992 to 1996. <\/span><\/p>\n

Prosecutors said they used the money to buy a horse farm and a golf course among other things. Loren-Maltese always maintained her innocence.<\/p>\n

Among the others convicted with Maltese were alleged Cicero mob boss Michael Spano Sr. and Emil Schullo, one-time head of the Cicero police department.<\/p>\n

At one time, Loren-Maltese had houses in Cicero and Las Vegas, but the government seized those properties.<\/p>\n

Now, friends Loren-Maltese is broke, homeless and in need of a job.<\/p>\n

As part of her probation, she has to give the Town of Cicero at least 20 percent of any paycheck she gets, until she pays back $8 million in debt.<\/p>\n

Before the racketeering conviction of Loren-Maltese and five others, federal agents spent years investigating the small, blue-collar suburb just west of Chicago that was known as a haven for corruption since the 1920s, when Al Capone made it the hub of his bootlegging empire.<\/p>\n

Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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CHICAGO — Betty Loren-Maltese was expected Monday to arrive at a Salvation Army halfway house on South Ashland Avenue. She will be there to finish out the rest of her 120-day probation\u00a0after spending almost seven years behind bars. Loren-Maltese and five co-defendants \u2013 including purported mobsters \u2013 were convicted of racketeering in 2002 for using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}