None
EN
Judge allows ‘serial fraudster’ from Crystal Lake to withdraw guilty plea for stealing from McHenry veterans group
['Sam Borcia']
Lake and McHenry County Scanner
A judge on Tuesday allowed a Crystal Lake man to withdraw his guilty plea for stealing from a veterans group in McHenry as he also awaits federal sentencing in a separate $8 million Ponzi scheme.
McHenry County Judge Tiffany Davis scheduled a sentencing hearing for Hanke for September 26.
Last month, attorney Albert Wysocki, who is newly representing Hanke, filed a motion to have his client’s guilty plea withdrawn.
As part of his plea, Hanke also admitted that he filed a bankruptcy petition and documents in a bankruptcy proceeding to conceal the conspiracy.
A sentencing hearing in the case was initially scheduled for October 31 and then delayed multiple times.
['veterans'
'attorney'
'serial'
'judge'
'group'
'withdraw'
'stealing'
'sentencing'
'prosecutors'
'hearing'
'mchenry'
'hanke'
'hankes'
'lake'
'guilty'
'motion'
'plea']