Fraudulent Scam Causes Family to Lose Home, Woman Claims
Mary 'Marie' Medina, 48, says she was scammed out of $191,000 by William 'Bill' Stoecker, who has been brought up on new fraud and theft charges on an unrelated case.
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Woman Claims Convicted Fraudster Cost Her Home and $191,000
Mary 'Marie' Medina, 48, says she was scammed out of $191,000 by William 'Bill' Stoecker, who has been brought up on new fraud and theft charges on an unrelated case.
Mary "Marie" Medina was unsurprised when she found out William "Bill" Stoecker had been arrested on identity theft, theft and fraud charges in connection to allegedly scamming a homeowner out of money that should have gone to repairs. Medina, 48, says she, too, was a victim of Stoecker's scam—to the tune of $191,000 that she paid to his construction firm in 2006 and 2007 to remodel her Lockport home. READ: Grabill Corp. Fraudster Back in Jail on New Charges Stoecker, 54, appeared in a Bridgeview courtroom Wednesday, Nov. 14, for a brief hearing before Judge John J. Hynes. His business manager, Susan Olszak, 46, of Florida, also has been charged. The case was continued because Hynes is currently in a jury trial. The pair is scheduled to …
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D. Blake
4:50 pm on Thursday, January 3, 2013
We used Atherton on our home rebuild and luckily we came out not "too" bad. We closed on our home June 2009 & moved in July 2009. We tried to refinance our loan in Spring 2010 at which time we were informed that we couldn't because we had a lien on our property from the framing company on our project, which we never received a notice on until after the fact. We had to hire an attorney to fight … more ›