Crime & Safety
Joliet Man Gets 4 Years for Stealing $50,000 from Obama Campaign
Jessie Adams and two accomplices set up bank accounts to cash checks written to Obama campaign vendors, officials said.
A Joliet man who set up bank accounts to cash more than $50,000 in checks written by the "Obama for America" campaign office was sentenced to four years in prison this week.
Jessie Adams, 37, pleaded guilty to a forgery charge in Cook County Circuit Court and admitted he enlisted two accomplices to set up accounts at suburban TCF Bank branches in order to cash checks that had been written to vendors, according to a story in the Chicago Sun-Times.
The checks were issued from Obama's Chicago campaign headquarters, the story said.
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Willard Elam, of Dolton, and Anthony Elam, of Chicago Heights, arrested with Adams in the case, received four-year prison terms at previous court hearings, the story said.
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