WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago attorney has been charged with stealing more than $2 million from his clients over four years.
Robert Beck of Wheaton is accused of bilking the estates of four former and three current clients of $1 million from July 2011 through January 2015.
The 48-year-old Beck is also accused of shifting roughly $1.26 million between the trusts using one to pay the heirs of another to cover up the thefts.
DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin says Beck’s alleged crimes came to light when a bank investigator became suspicious and contacted Will County authorities who in turn contacted his office.
Beck on Wednesday was being held in lieu of $250,000 bail in the DuPage County Jail.
It wasn’t immediately known if Beck has legal representation.