Ventre v. Datronic Rental Corp.

ORDER

Seventeen years ago Edmund J. Lopin-ski, Jr., intentionally defaulted a civil suit claiming that he and other defendants had looted millions from investment pools they controlled; Lopinski and his lawyers decided that a forthcoming indictment in a parallel criminal investigation made defending the civil suit risky. A default judgment later was entered, and Lopinski also was convicted of wire fraud, 18 U.S.C. § 1343, and sentenced to prison. See United States v. Lopinski, 240 F.3d 574 (7th Cir.2001). In 2005 a final judgment was entered in the civil suit after the remaining defendants had…