BREAKING NEWS: Robert Cantrell indicted on 11 counts
NWI Times
Mar 21, 2007
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HAMMOND | The U.S. Attorney this afternoon announced an 11-count indictment against Lake County political operative Robert Cantrell, alleging seven felony counts of fraud and four counts of tax evasion.
In the indictment of the longtime powerbroker of Lake County politics, Cantrell is alleged to partaken in to two illegal schemes.
In the first scheme, Cantrell illegally profited from a contract between drug counseling service Addiction and Family Care and his then-employer, the North Township Trustee's office, the government alleges. Owner of the counseling service, Nancy Fromm employed Cantrell as a consultant who would use his connections in government to generate business for the firm in exchange for per-head "referral fees."
In the second scheme alleged against Cantrell, he arranged for two people to be placed on the health insurance plans of Addiction and Family Care who were not employees of the firm.
Fromm, whose addiction counseling firm has done business with courts all across Lake County, pleaded guilty last week to two federal felonies, admitting to illegally hiding her business profits from a grand jury and then under-reporting her personal income in 2003. The plea sets the stage for Fromm to cooperate with the government in other public corruption probes.
Deputy U.S. Attorney David Capp said the prosecutor will continue to investigate public corruption in the form of contract letting, ghost payrolling and wherever else the investigation takes them.
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