Convicted Disbarred Lawyer Land Swindles Another While In Jail, Says Report

In Chicago, Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reports:

• A disbarred Berwyn lawyer awaiting sentencing for selling vacant lots that belonged to a Chicago church pulled off a similar scam while incarcerated in Cook County Jail, according to records and interviews. In the latest bogus transaction, Phillip Radmer sold property on the city's West Side that belonged to Providence-St. Mel School -- without the school's knowledge -- to a savvy real estate investor and developer.

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• A Tribune investigation last year disclosed a series of complicated real estate transactions in which Radmer created dozens of sham corporations and phony buyers to steal more than 60 vacant lots from poor churches, non-profits and corporations. Following the reports by the Tribune, Radmer was arrested in June 2006 at his Berwyn home and has been in County Jail since.

For more, see Records show land swindler at it again -- from jail (Ex-lawyer sold lot belonging to school).

See also, Land swindler pulls off another scam while jailed.

For an earlier story on the theft of lots, see Report: Land Sold Without Church's Permission (cbs2chicago.com).

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Stealing Vacant Lots Gets Disbarred Lawyer 12 Years In Pen

In Chicago, Illinois, the Chicago Tribune reports:

• Phillip Radmer, a disbarred Berwyn attorney who created phony corporations and invented board members to steal the properties of poor churches, nonprofit groups and businesses, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison. "Mr. Radmer has ruined a lot of people's lives in this case," Cook County Circuit Judge Stanley Sacks said in imposing the sentence for theft and forgery. Representatives of six churches told the judge that the scheme forced them to spend scarce resources to untangle the mess left behind by Radmer over who rightfully owned the properties.

For more, see Ex-lawyer gets 12 years for lot thefts (Berwyn man faked real estate deals).

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