SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) - A
former suburban Chicago police chief who pleaded guilty in a fraud scheme
related to a $1.25 million state grant in 2009 was sentenced to five years in
prison.
Regina Evans is the former top
cop in Country Club Hills. She pleaded guilty last year in U.S. District Court
to wire fraud, money-laundering and conspiracy charges last year. She was
accused of stealing more than $900,000 of the state work-training grant that
was part of her effort to revive the Regal Theater on Chicago's South Side.
In handing down the sentence,
U.S. District Judge Sue Myerscough told the woman she "broke the law in
magnificent fashion with a magnificent fraud." She ordered Evans to pay
$917,000 in restitution.