Glenview Man Indicted in Possible Clerk's Office Scheme

A Glenview man has been accused of lying to a federal grand jury about his contact with the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk’s office after loaning $15,000 to a company controlled by the clerk’s husband.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Sivasubramani Rajaram, 48, was charged with one count of making false declarations before a grand jury in an indictment unsealed last week.

Rajaram was hired by the Clerk’s Office after loaning $15,000 to Goat Masters Corporation, whose president was the clerk’s husband. The following month, Rajaram was hired by the Clerk’s Office as a level four Senior Clerk.

The indictment alleges Rajaram testified on October 1 during an investigation of possible criminal violations regarding the purchasing of jobs and promotions within in office that he has not spoken to the clerk after he was hired and that he had only spoken to another high-ranking employee of the Clerk’s Office “three or four times” since returning to Chicago from India, and that the conversations were not by phone.

But the indictment also claims both of those statements were false. His conversations with the high-ranking employee occurred dozens of times via cell phone, according to the indictment.

If convicted, Rajaram could face up to five years in prison.