Washington Federal Bank investigation
Coverage of the Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Bridgeport failure and the federal investigation into the now-shuttered bank.
The new revelation came after Thompson’s defense attorney, Chris Gair, again blasted the feds’ prosecution of Thompson and pushed for a trial as soon as this fall.
Police consent decree monitor Maggie Hickey and chef Kevin Hickey are dealing with their late father’s losses from Washington Federal Bank for Savings’s shutdown.
Lawyers argued about whether Thompson must surrender his passport while awaiting trial. It’s a routine request, but his attorney called it “just punitive.” The judge gave Thompson a week to turn in his passport — and his FOID card.
He got $89,000 from Washington Federal Bank for Savings after another Bridgeport bank demanded he repay a loan that was nearly three years past due.
The Bridgeport alderman, 51, who faces seven charges involving Washington Federal Bank for Savings, says: ‘I did not commit any crime, I am innocent, and I will prove it at trial.’
The would-be operators of what’s now DaVinci’s Gaming Bar couldn’t get licenses because of legal troubles. The feds investigating a failed Bridgeport bank are now looking at the bar.
One disappeared in 1982 after 69 honest and scandal-free years. The other appears to have been the victim of a gargantuan loan fraud scheme.
It’s the latest development in a case that traces back to Dec. 3, 2017, when John F. Gembara, president of Washington Federal Bank for Savings was found dead in Marek Matczuk’s home.
Robert M. Kowalski will not be allowed to leave his sister’s west suburban home as he prepares to represent himself at trial.
Bansley & Kiener agreed to the payout, which didn’t involve any admission of wrongdoing. Washington Federal Bank for Savings’ failure remains under investigation.
The feds want to know if bank’s top debtor opened the bar under the name of his 80-year-old mother.
It’s a new strange twist in a case that has so far led to the indictment of six people, including Robert Kowalski.
‘The number of defendants would be many more,’ a prosecutor says of the collapsed Washington Federal Bank for Savings in Bridgeport, where many customers had ties to the Daley family and the 11th Ward Democratic Party.
Feds blast John F. Gembara’s handling of clout-heavy Washington Federal Bank for Savings, saying he gave no-collateral ‘loan advances’ without expecting repayment.
William Mahon, who was a board member of a failed Bridgeport bank shut down by federal authorities, had a role in City Hall hiring scandal that sent Mayor Richard M. Daley’s patronage director to prison.
