A former Country Club Hills police chief was charged Friday with misappropriating part of a $1.25 million state grant.
Regina R. Evans, 49, faces one count of mail fraud and two counts of money laundering for siphoning off almost half of the state job-training grant for her personal use between February 2009 and June 2010, prosecutors said.
…The indictment alleged Evans converted “as much as $500,000 or more” of the grant for her “personal use” and to benefit businesses she owned, including the theater and The Prime Time Group.
The indictment alleged that Evans used $275,000 of the grant to make payments on a delinquent mortgage she had for the Regal Theater, which at the time the job-training money was made available was facing foreclosure in Cook County Circuit Court.
The indictment also accused her of diverting $135,000 of the grant to her personal bank account that was “used for cash withdrawals and personal and other expenses, including the repayment of additional indebtedness.”
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