Betty Loren-Maltese, the former Town President of the Chicago suburb Cicero, "has been released from prison in California and has been sent to a halfway house in Phoenix" as reported by CBS 2:
Betty Loren-Maltese and five co-defendants – including purported mobsters – were convicted of racketeering in 2002 for using a bogus insurance company to bilk taxpayers out of more than $10 million from 1992 to 1996. Prosecutors said they used the money to buy a horse farm and a golf course among other things. * * * Among the others convicted with Maltese were alleged Cicero mob boss Michael Spano Sr. and Emil Schullo, one-time head of the Cicero police department. Before the racketeering conviction of Loren-Maltese and five others, federal agents spent years investigating the small, blue-collar suburb just west of Chicago that was known as a haven for corruption since the 1920s, when Al Capone made it the hub of his bootlegging empire.
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