By Tim Novak, includes “Chicago attorney and developer Robert M. Kowalski is accused of embezzling at least $31 million from Washington Federal Bank for Savings, which operated in the political fiefdom of the Daley family for generations. … Kowalski hired the law firm of Ald. Edward M. Burke to fight the property assessments on a building in the Fulton Market neighborhood. Federal prosecutors allege that building was part of the scheme to steal money from the bank run by Kowalski’s longtime friend, the late John F. Gembara. Gembara was found dead in a customer’s bedroom 12 days before regulators closed the bank in December 2017.”
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