3 Years In Federal Prison For Anthony Fremarek's $1.37M Embezzlement

PLAINFIELD, IL — Former Plainfield Township Supervisor Anthony Fremarek has been sentenced to three years in federal prison after he was found embezzling roughly $1.37 million from a suburban consulting firm where he worked.

Fremarek pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraudon Nov. 28, admitting he embezzled the money from the Schaumburg company between April 2013 and April 2019.

The Plainfield resident faced a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 or "twice the gross gain or gross loss resulting from that offense, whichever is greater," Patch reported in November.

"[A]s soon as [Fremarek] had access to the company’s accounts and financial records, he began abusing his position out of pure greed," Assistant U.S. Attorney Ashley A. Chung argued in the government’s sentencing memorandum. "[He] unrepentantly betray[ed] the trust of his former partners and employees and stopped only when he was caught and terminated."

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U.S. District Court Judge Robert Gettleman imposed the sentence Feb. 23.

Fremarek was charged in January 2021 and accused of stealing from the consulting firm where he worked as chief financial officer and manager, as well as one of its five partners. He resigned from his role as supervisor two months after he was indicted, Patch reported.

According to a lawsuit, Fremarek concealed the theft by falsifying entries in the company's accounting system to disguise the payments to his personal credit cards as seemingly legitimate business expenses.

Fremarek was elected to the township board as a trustee in April 2009, elected supervisor in 2013 and reelected in 2017. He sought reelection again in the April 6, 2021, municipal election before announcing two days later he would end his bid.

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