Unsealed records reveal new details about Illinois appellate judge’s alleged role in decades-old fraud scheme
Judge Carl Walker was never charged and denied any wrongdoing in mortgage frauds perpetrated by a real estate client. But a controversial 2003 raid on his law offices has reemerged in an effort to remove him from hearing a case.
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