The former chief operating officer of a Willowbrook-based company that sold COVID-19 tests is facing federal embezzlement charges.
Dennis W. Haggerty Jr., 47, of Burr Ridge, is accused of filtering $1.
Dennis W. Haggerty Jr. pleaded guilty to wire fraud, money laundering and must pay nearly $2 million in restitution to 2 hospitals that ordered N95 face masks from his firm.
A federal judge sentenced a Burr Ridge businessman on Monday to nearly five years in prison on charges that he swindled two hospitals that had sought coveted protective face masks in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dennis W. Haggerty Jr. of Burr Ridge pleaded guilty in March to wire fraud and money laundering charges for taking more than $2.5 million from hospitals in Chicago and Iowa.