After a judge ordered a veteran’s financial accounts off-limits, former Judge Patricia Martin allegedly accessed cryptocurrency accounts holding his money.
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Authorities have opened a criminal investigation into fraud allegations made against a former Cook County judge who has been accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from an elderly man and using the funds to buy cryptocurrency, Cook County prosecutors said Monday during a court hearing. Prosecutors also filed a petition for criminal contempt against Patricia Martin, who stepped .
Cook County prosecutors intend to pursue a criminal contempt case against a former Cook County judge who has been accused in civil filings and an attorney discipline complaint of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the bank accounts of an elderly man, an assistant state’s attorney told a judge Thursday morning. Patricia Martin, who stepped down as presiding judge in the child .