Senior Scammers Get 14 Year Prison Sentence
One of the scammers lived in Northbrook, where he romanced a woman to defraud her mother of savings, before the jilted woman killed herself, prosecutors said.
Update Nov. 14 at 11:15 a.m. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting Elizabeth Kelleher was the Northbrook woman who committed suicide after John J. Sullivan defrauded her mother. Kelleher “took her own life to be found by her sons,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Pope told the Sun-Times Kelleher's obituary appeared in the Chicago Tribune in February. Original Story Two brothers were each sentenced Tuesday to 14 years in federal prison after being convicted last year of engaging in a home-repair fraud scheme that targeted elderly victims on the city’s south and west sides, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced. The defendants, John J. Sullivan, formerly of Northbrook, and his brother, Daniel J. Sullivan, of Niles, swindled more than 50 victims…
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